Exxon Corporation v. Lujan’s Empirical Analysis
970 F.2d 757 · 1992
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably Lansing Dairy, Inc. v. Espy (1994), John Hancock Mutual Life insurance v. Weisman (1994)
14 federal appellate · 8 district · 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
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Committee for Public Education & Religious Liberty v. Nyquist · Sullivan v. Everhart
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, always, is the question whether Congress has directly spoken to the precise question at issue. If the intent of Congress is clear, that is the end of the matter; for the court, as well as the agency, must give effect to the unambiguously expressed intent of Congress, (fn omitted). Rather, if the statute is silent or ambiguous with respect to the specific issue, the question for the court is whether the agency’s answer is based on a permissible construction of the statute, (fn omitted).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n agency interpretation of a relevant provision which conflicts with the agency's earlier interpretation is 'entitled to considerably less deference' than a consistently held agency view.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'rational and consistent with the statute.' " Sullivan, 494 U.S. at 89, 110 S.Ct. at 964 (quoting NLRB v. United Food & Commercial Workers, 484 U.S. 112 , 123, 108 S.Ct. 413, 416, 98 L.Ed.2d 429 (1987)). Accord Salt Lake City v. Western Area Power Admin., 926 F.2d 974 , 981 (10th Cir.1991) ("when an administering agency's interpretation of a statute is challenged, and traditional tools of statutory construction yield no relevant congressional intent, the reviewing court must determine if the agency's construction is a permissible one”
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.