Yelvington v. Presidential Pardon & Parole Attorneys’s Empirical Analysis
211 F.2d 642 · 1954
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2025
7 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
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 1001
Relies on Ex parte Garland · United States Touhy v. Ragen · Williams v. Fanning
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.
““were primarily intended for the internal guidance of the personnel of the Department of Justice. Nothing in the regulations says that they are designed to create new and enforceable rights in persons applying for executive clemency. In fact, they imply the contrary.” ( 211 F.2d at 643 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hoffa v. Saxbe
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.