Exportal Ltda. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
902 F.2d 45 · 1990
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2018
14 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2342 · 28 U.S.C. § 2347 · 5 U.S.C. § 553 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 7 U.S.C. § 499F · 7 U.S.C. § 499G
Relies on Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Buckley v. Valeo · Udall v. Tallman · Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp.
Most-quoted passages
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rule in this setting [of interpreting administrative regulations] is not a product of some fetishistic attraction to legal”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if permitted to adopt unforeseen interpretations, agencies could constructively amend their regulations while evading their duty to engage in notice and comment procedures.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he plain meaning doctrine is an interpretive norm essential to perfecting the scheme of administrative governance established by the APA.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bauer v. Devos
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.