administrative authority
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 281 U.S. 206 - Wilbur v. United States ex rel. Kadrie · 1930Most cited · 593 citing opinions
The decision in 1919 was not a judgment pronounced in a judicial proceeding, but a ruling made by an executive officer in the exertion of administrative authority. That authority was neither exhausted nor terminated by its exertion on that occasion, but was in its nature continuing. Under it the Secretary who made the decision could reconsider the matter and revoke the decision if found wrong; and so of his successor. The power and duties of such an office are impersonal and unaffected by a change in the person holding it.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “administrative authority” — 593 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.