IPCO Safety Corp. v. WorldCom, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2015
4 district · 4 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. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 47 U.S.C. § 203
Relies on Far East Conference v. United States · Nader v. Allegheny Airlines, Inc. · Steffens v. Derwinski · Barton v. Landmark Land Co. of Carolina · MCI Telecommunications Corp. v. Teleconcepts, Inc.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Whether the matter at issue is within the conventional experience of judges; (2) Whether the matter is peculiarly within the agency's discretion, or requires agency expertise; (3) Whether inconsistent rulings might pose the danger of disrupting the expertise; and”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a principle, now firmly established, that in cases raising issues of fact not within the conventional experience of judges or cases requiring the exercise of administrative discretion, agencies created by Congress should not be passed over.... Uniformity and consistency in the regulation of business entrusted to a particular agency are secured, and the limited functions of review by the judiciary are more rationally exercised by preliminary resort for ascertaining and interpreting the circumstances underlying legal issues to agencies that are better equipped than courts by specialization, by insight gained through experience, and by more flexible procedure.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“pragmatic evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of allowing the agency to resolve the issue in the first instance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.