Dellums v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2013
7 federal appellate · 1 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 44 U.S.C. § 2107 (Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act of 2018)
Relies on United States v. Nixon · William Marbury v. James Madison · United States v. Reynolds · Ingraham v. Wright · Sullivan v. Murphy
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. We developed this in view of appellant's objection to screening by the counselor to the President. In the petition filed February 11, appellant asserts that he has objections to our alternative he complains of a conflict of interest because of other litigation pending with GSA, and lack of pertinent expertise. Appellant asserts that he would even prefer screening by the counselor to the President. We do not probe these matters. We will revise our opinion to change”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all tapes and transcripts of White House conversations during the period of April 16 through May 10, 1971, at which 'May Day' demonstrations . . . were discussed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“falling within the provisions of the Act pending Mr. Nixon's appeal to the Supreme Court, it specifically did not enjoin any review, inspection, or disclosure”
2 later decisions 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.