In Re: Alphonso Michael Espy’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 2018
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Relies on Buckley v. Valeo · Morrison v. Olson · United States v. Tucker · United States v. Espy · In Re Alphonso Michael Espy
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“constitutional difficulties ... arise when executive duties of a non-judicial nature are imposed on judges holding office under Article III of the Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[O]ur power to make such referral is much more limited than the broad referral power of the Attorney General.”
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.