Richard A. French v. Jack R. Duckworth, and United States of America, Intervenor-Appellant’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024
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 · Hanna v. Plumer · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Chadha · Weinberger v. Romero-Barcelo · United States v. Addonizio
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are well aware of the rule requiring courts to construe statutes consistently with the Constitution, if the language will bear any such construction. But the qualification that the language must be able to bear the constitutional interpretation is an important one. Courts cannot redraft statutes so that they read the way Congress might have written them, or should have written them. Instead, we must take the laws as they are given to us and work with them.”
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.