Walker v. Cheney’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
5 district ·
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Applies 13 U.S.C. § 1 (Census Address List Improvement Act of 1994) · 18 U.S.C. § 6005 · 31 U.S.C. § 702 · 31 U.S.C. § 712 · 31 U.S.C. § 716
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Warth v. Seldin · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Baker v. Carr · Buckley v. Valeo
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he standing inquiry should be “especially rigorous” because reaching the merits of this dispute could require deciding whether an action taken by one of the other branches of government was unconstitutional____ As the Supreme Court has observed, the power to declare actions of the other branches unconstitutional should be should be “a tool of last resort” because it “is ... the ultimate threat to the continued effectiveness of the federal courts in performing that role.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“twenty-two years ago hardly gives this Court confidence that the current Congress has authorized this Comptroller General to pursue a judicial resolution of the specific issues affecting the balance of power between the Article I and Article II Branches”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cummings v. Murphy“It is evident from several episodes in our history that in analogous confrontations between one or both Houses of Congress and the Executive Branch, no suit was brought on the basis of claimed injury to official authority or power.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cummings v. Murphy
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.