Blackmar v. Guerre’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
352 federal appellate · 173 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,015 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019 · most notably Kansas City Power & Light Company v. Douglas McKay Secretary of the Interior (1955), Gnotta v. United States (1969)
352 federal appellate · 173 district · 7 state decisions
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Keifer v. Reconstruction Finance Corp. · Libby, McNeill & Libby v. Alaska Industrial Board · State of New York v. United States · Blackmar v. Guerre
Cited together with Larson v. Domestic & Foreign Commerce Corp. · Williams v. Fanning · Land US v. Dollar · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Dugan v. Rank
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 1,015 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When Congress authorizes one of its agencies to be sued eo nomine, it does so in explicit language, or impliedly because the agency is the offspring of such a suable entity.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The form of proceeding for judicial review is the special statutory review proceeding relevant to the subject matter in a court specified by statute or, in the absence or inadequacy thereof, any applicable form of legal action, including actions for declaratory judgments or writs of prohibitory or mandatory injunction or habeas corpus, in a court of competent jurisdiction. If no special statutory review proceeding is applicable, the action for judicial review may be brought against the United States, the agency by its official title, or the appropriate officer. Except to the extent that prior, adequate, and exclusive opportunity for judicial review is provided by law, agency action is subject to judicial review in civil or criminal proceedings for judicial enforcement.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If the Commission could be sued eo nomine, we would be confronted with the question of whether service as here made would be sufficient to bring the Commission into court; but Congress has not constituted the Commission a body corporate or authorized it to be sued eo nomine.””
5 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.