Barr v. Matteo’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 3 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2014 · most notably Berkemer v. McCarty (1984), Butz v. Economou (1978)
50 federal appellate · 3 district · 19 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 District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Eccles v. Peoples Bank of Lakewood Village · Swift Company v. Hocking Valley Railway Company · United States v. CIO
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n advisory opinion cannot be extracted from a federal court by agreement of the parties, and no matter how much they may favor the settlement of an important question of constitutional law, broad considerations of appropriate exercise of judicial power prevent such determinations unless actually compelled by the litigation before the Court.... Many of the same reasons are present which impel them to abstain from adjudicating constitutional claims against a statute before it effectively and presently impinges on such claims.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[N]o matter how much [the parties] may favor the settlement of an important question of constitutional law, broad considerations of the appropriate exercise of judicial power prevent such determinations unless actually compelled by the litigation before the Court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]n advisory opinion cannot be extracted from a federal court by agreement of the parties.”
1 later decision 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.