agency action
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 387 U.S. 136 - Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · 1967Most cited · 13,798 citing opinions
rule
An 'agency action' includes any 'rule,' defined by the Act as 'an agency statement of general or particular applicability and future effect designed to implement, interpret, or prescribe law or policy.
How often courts cite the case defining “agency action”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “agency action” — 13,713 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.