Wiener v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
92 federal appellate · 51 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 293 later decisions (36 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Buckley v. Valeo (1976), Cort v. Ash (1975)
92 federal appellate · 51 district · 28 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.
Relationships
Relies on Myers v. United States · Humphrey's Ex'r v. United States · La Abra Silver Mining Company v. United States · Garlington v. Wasson
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 293 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we are compelled to conclude that no such power is given to the President directly by the Constitution, and none is impliedly conferred upon him by statute simply because Congress said nothing about it.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We think it plain under the Constitution that illimitable power 'of removal is not possessed by the President in respect of officers of the character of those just named. The authority of'Congress, in creating quasi legislative or quasi judicial agencies, to require them to act in discharge of their duties independently of executive control cannot' well be doubted; and that authority includes, as an appropriate incident, power to fix the period during which they shall continue, and to forbid their removal except for cause in the meantime. For it is quite evident that one who holds his office only during the pleasure of another cannot be depended upon to máintain an attitude of independence against the latter’s will.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f, as one must take for granted, the War Claims Act precluded the President from influencing the Commission in passing on a particular claim, a fortiori must it be inferred that Congress did riot wish to have hang over the Commission the Damocles’ sword of removal by the President for no reason other than that he preferred to have on that Commission men of his own choosing.”
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.