No. 97-3211’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
5 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona · Rust v. Sullivan · Raines v. Byrd · Coleman v. Miller
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Justice Souter [in his concurring opinion in Raines ] cautioned against courts embroiling themselves in a political interbranch controversy between the United States Congress and the President, [citation omitted] Federal courts should exercise this same caution when, as in this case, there exists a political interbranch controversy between state legislators and a state executive branch concerning implementation of a bill.”). . Raines declined to address appellants’ alternative arguments that Coleman should be distinguished because”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a bill they voted for would have become law if their vote had not been stripped of its validity”
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.