Throckmorton v. National Transportation Safety Board’s Empirical Analysis
963 F.2d 441 · 1992
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Village of Bensenville v. Federal Aviation Administration (2006), Davis Supermarkets, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board (1993)
33 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 49 U.S.C. § 1153 · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on United States v. Grinnell Corp. · Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville · United States v. National Dairy Products Corp. · Boyce Motor Lines, Inc. v. United States · Isaksen v. Vermont Castings, 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“determine whether the agency ... could fairly and reasonably find the facts as it did.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[N]o more than a reasonable degree of certainty can be demanded and it is not unfair to require that one who deliberately goes perilously close to an area of proscribed conduct shall take the risk that he may cross the line.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“An agency conclusion may be supported by substantial evidence even though a plausible alternative interpretation of the evidence would support a contrary view.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Quinn v. Pena
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.