Davi v. Laird’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer · Johnson v. Eisentrager · Harmon v. Brucker · National Labor Relations Board v. Garwin Corp.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is apparent that several formulations . . . may describe a political question .... Prominent on the surface of any ease held to involve a political question is found a textually demonstrable constitutional commitment of the issue to a coordinate political department;' or a lack of judicially discoverable and manageable standards for resolving it; or the impossibility of deciding without an initial policy determination of a kind clearly for nonjudicial discretion; or the impossibility of a court’s undertaking independent resolution without expressing lack of the respect due coordinate branches of government; or an unusual need for unquestioning adherence to a political decision already made; or the potentiality of embarrassment' from multifarious pronouncements by various departments on one question.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Head v. Nixon
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.