Linus C. Pauling v. Robert S. McNamara’s Empirical Analysis
331 F.2d 796 · 1964
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably Carmen Gonzalez v. Orville L. Freeman (1964), Lane v. Halliburton (2008)
15 federal appellate · 9 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
Relies on Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath · Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez · Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer · United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. · Chicago & Southern Air Lines, Inc. v. Waterman Steamship 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In framing policies relating to the great issues of national defense and security, the people are and must be, in a sense, at the mercy of their elected representatives.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * decisions in the large matters- of basic national policy, as of foreign policy, present no judicially cognizable issues and hence the courts are not empowered to decide them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Luftig v. McNamara
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.