Wilkins’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2013
2 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 Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Burlington Truck Lines, Inc. v. United States · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Camp v. Pitts
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any reasonable interpretation given to the statute by the agency charged with its administration.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when reviewing agency decisions, both the district court and an appellate court must make an independent decision based on the identical record that was before the fact finder.”
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.