Fletcher v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2021
15 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 29 U.S.C. § 651 (§ 2 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970) · 30 U.S.C. § 1201 (Abandoned Mine Reclamation Act of 1990) · 31 U.S.C. § 1341 · 33 U.S.C. § 1251 (Alternative Water Sources Act of 2000) · 42 U.S.C. § 6901 (Federal Facility Compliance Act of 1992) · 42 U.S.C. § 7401 (Air Quality Act of 1967)
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Powell v. McCormack · M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Chadha
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should not interfere in the exercise by another department of a discretion that is committed by a textually demonstrable provision of the Constitution to the other department,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The powers of government shall be divided into three distinct departments, each of them to be confided to a separate body of magistracy; to wit: those which are legislative to one, those which are judiciary to another, and those which are executive to another. No person, or collection of persons, being of one of these departments, shall exercise any power properly belonging to either of the others, except in the instances hereinafter expressly permitted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Rhine“The suspension of statutes by a Governor is also antithetical to the constitutional duty to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” Ky. Const. § 81. A fortiori, the suspension of any statutes by the Governor’s Public Services Continuation Plan was unconstitutional and invalid ab initio.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Baker v. Fletcher
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.