Humphrey's Ex'r v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
295 U.S. 602 · 1935
Citation profile
315 federal appellate · 159 district · 136 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,076 later decisions (121 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Buckley v. Valeo (1976), United States v. Nixon (1974)
315 federal appellate · 159 district · 136 state decisions — followed in 28 states
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
Relies on William Marbury v. James Madison · Cohens v. Virginia · Myers v. United States · Cohens v. Virginia
Cited together with Myers v. United States · Buckley v. Valeo · Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer · Wiener v. United States · Morrison v. Olson
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 1,076 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“each of the three general departments of government [must remain] entirely free from the control or coercive influence, direct or indirect, of either of the others,”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“executive power in the constitutional sense,”
10 later decisions 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.