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← 299 F.1d 620 - Ex parte Daugherty

Ex parte Daugherty’s Empirical Analysis

299 F. 620 · 1924

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
4
cited 4 times by the Supreme Court
October 2019
most recently cited

Relationships

Relies on Kilbourn v. Thompson · Anderson v. Dunn · In re Chapman · George Henry v. William Henkel · Marshall v. Gordon

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “What the Senate is engaged in doing is not investigating the Attorney General’s office; it is investigating the former Attorney General. What it has done is to put him on trial before it. In so doing it is exercising the judicial function. This it has no power to do.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “information necessary as a basis for such legislative and other action as the Senate may deem necessary and proper,”
    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.