Flaxer v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
235 F.2d 821 · 1956
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1975
9 federal appellate ·
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia District Court)
Relationships
Applies 2 U.S.C. § 192 · 50 U.S.C. § 781
Relies on Galvan v. Press · Quinn v. United States · Barsky v. United States · Estate of Nathan v. Commissioner · Bart v. United States
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.
““Appellant was entitled, and in effect asked, to have his objection to the subpoena considered by ‘this committee’, i. e. the subcommittee. It was not so considered. Under Senate rules, the chairman was a quorum ‘for the purpose of administering oaths and taking sworn testimony’, but he was not a quorum for other purposes.””
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.