Lewis v. Beeler’s Empirical Analysis
949 F.2d 325 · 1991
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2011
14 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Columbian Enameling & Stamping Co. · Carter v. Nesby · Solomon v. Elsea · Hackett v. United States Parole Commission · Kramer v. Oc Jenkins
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.
“A court of review need only determine whether the information relied on by the Commission is sufficient to provide a factual basis for its reasons. The inquiry is not whether the Commission's decision is supported by the preponderance of the evidence, or even by substantial evidence; the inquiry is only whether there is a rational basis in the record for the Commission's conclusions embodied in its statement of reasons.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the decision is arbitrary and capricious or is an abuse of discretion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“while we might not have concluded that Lewis was the Tylenol murderer based on this evidence, it provides a rational basis for the Commission's finding to that effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Peltier v. Booker
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.