Elliott v. White’s Empirical Analysis
23 F.2d 997 · 1928
Citation profile
7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1981
7 district · 2 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 42 U.S.C. § 161
Relies on Massachusetts v. Mellon
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Looking through forms of words to the substance of their complaint, it is merely that officials of the executive department of the government are executing and will execute an act of Congress asserted to be unconstitutional, and this we are asked to prevent. To do so would be not to decide a judicial controversy, but to assume a position of authority over the governmental acts of another and coequal department, an authority which plainly we do not possess.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the chaplains of the senate and house of representatives.” Id. § 6. This statute, amended in 1872, 1879, 1913, 1920, and 1948, is the predecessor to G. L. c. 3, § 14. 12 But cf. James Madison’s views on the equal protection issue in his Detached Memoranda, supra note 9:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.