Bauer v. Acheson’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2002
7 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 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
Applies 22 U.S.C. § 211A (First Responders Passport Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 5 U.S.C. § 1001 · 5 U.S.C. § 1009
Relies on Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath · Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife. · Cox v. State of New Hampshire · United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. · Wong Yang Sung v. McGrath
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Secretary of State may grant and issue passports, and cause passports to be granted, issued, and verified in foreign countries by diplomatic representatives of the United States, and by such consul generals, consuls, or vice consuls when in charge, as the (Secretary of State may designate, and by the chief or other executive officer of the insular possessions of the United States, under such rules as the President shall designate and prescribe for and on behalf of the United States, and no other person shall grant, issue, or verify such passports.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The Secretary of State is authorized to make regulations on the subject of issuing, renewing, extending, amending, restricting, or withdrawing passports additional to the rules in this part and not inconsistent therewith.””
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.