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legislative rulemaking — general applicability standard

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Definitions from Case Law

From 406 U.S. 742 - United States v. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp. · 1972Most cited · 762 citing opinions

In establishing a rule of general application, it is not a condition of its validity that there be adduced evidence of its appropriateness in respect to every railroad to which it will be applicable. In this connection, the Commission, like other legislators, may reason from the particular to the general

How often courts cite the case defining “legislative rulemaking — general applicability standard”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “legislative rulemaking — general applicability standard” — 759 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.