General Motors Corporation v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Mercedes-Benz of North America, Inc., Intervenor. Mercedes-Benz of North America, Inc. v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Empirical Analysis

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19 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions

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The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “stopped at text and history without weaving into the calculus policy and administrative concerns,”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. No. 89-1637 · Appalachian Power Company v. Environmental Protection Agency, Public Service Electric & Gas Company, Intervenors

2. “when an agency's decision rests on a supposed mandate by Congress and the agency is later determined to be wrong as to the mandate, a remand may be required for it to exercise its discretion on the issue.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. No. 89-1637 · Appalachian Power Company v. Environmental Protection Agency, Public Service Electric & Gas Company, Intervenors

3. “[C]ongressional enactments and administrative rules will not be construed to have retroactive effect unless their language requires this result. By the same principle, a statutory grant of legislative rulemaking authority will not, as a general matter, be understood to encompass the power to promulgate retroactive rules unless that power is conveyed by Congress in express terms.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
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