Metropolitan School District of Wayne Township v. Davila’s Empirical Analysis
969 F.2d 485 · 1992
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Edward T. Splane and Paralyzed Veterans of America v. Togo D. West, Jr., Secretary of Veterans Affairs (2000), Nancy Sweet v. Robert Sheahan (2000)
36 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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
Relies on Honig v. Doe · General Electric Co. v. Gilbert · Ford Motor Credit Co. v. Milhollin · Batterton v. Francis · Samuel Moore & Co. v. Multiflex, 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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“show that an agency's change in its reading of the statute does not necessarily make the rule announcing the change legislative.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lane v. Salazar · 97 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 5380, 97 Daily Journal D.A.R. 8755 Chief Probation Officers of California, and the County of Santa Barbara, California v. Donna Shalala, Mary Jo Bane, and Lavinia Limon, in Their Official Capacities, Department of Health and Human Services and Administration for Children and Families“[R]ules are legislative when the agency is exercising delegated power to make law through rules, and rules are interpretative when the agency is not exercising such delegated power in issuing them.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“All rules which interpret the underlying statute must be binding because they set forth what the agency believes is congressional intent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.