Velvel v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2016
8 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act)
Relies on Flast v. Cohen · William Marbury v. James Madison · Massachusetts v. Mellon · United States v. Lee · Johnson v. Eisentrager
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“this is not an action brought specifically for the purpose of challenging a federal taxing or spending program,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Velvel v. Nixon“decisions of basic national policy, as of foreign policy, present no judicially cognizable issue”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“under the direction of the President, fall within the political question”
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.