Massachusetts, Department of Public Welfare v. Secretary of Agriculture’s Empirical Analysis
984 F.2d 514 · 1993
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 12 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2023 · most notably 195 W. Va. 573 - Appalachian Power Co. v. State Tax Department (1995), Associated Fisheries of Maine, Inc. v. Daley (1997)
42 federal appellate · 12 district · 3 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Udall v. Tallman · McKart v. United States
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n the usual administrative law case, a court ought not to consider points which were not seasonably raised before the agency.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“arbitrary, capricious, or contrary to law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“First, when the administrative agency is given an opportunity to address a party's objections, it can apply its expertise, exercise its informed discretion, and create a more finely tuned record for judicial review.... A second reason for applying strict rules of procedural default in the administrative context is to promote judicial economy.... Finally, enforcing procedural default solidifies the agency's autonomy by allowing it the opportunity to monitor its own mistakes and by ensuring that regulated parties do not simply turn to the courts as a tribunal of first resort.”
2 later decisions 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.