Saldano v. O'Connell’s Empirical Analysis
322 F.3d 365 · 2003
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Elrod v. Burns · Powell v. McCormack · Quackenbush California Insurance Commissioner v. Allstate Insurance Co · Baskett v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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“(1) a textually demonstrable constitutional commitment to a coordinate political department; or (2) a lack of judicially discoverable and manageable standards for resolving [the issue]; or (3) the impossibility of deciding without initial policy determination of a kind clearly for nonjudicial discretion; or (4) the impossibility of a court’s undertaking independent resolution without ex pressing lack of respect to coordinate branches of the government; or (5) an unusual need for unquestioning adherence to a political decision already made; or (6) the potentiality for embarrassment from multifarious pronouncements by various departments on one question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.