James A. Dombrowski v. Colonel Thomas D. Burbank’s Empirical Analysis
358 F.2d 821 · 1966
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2019
12 federal appellate · 2 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 Dombrowski v. Pfister · Tenney v. Brandhove · Barr v. Matteo · Virginian Ry Co v. System Federation No 40 · Wheeldin v. Wheeler
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since the documents are now held by the Subcommittee, they are accessible to the (defendants) only by virtue of their officials positions with that body. We cannot prohibit, nor are we asked to prohibit, (their) use of the documents in the course of their official business for the Subcommittee; and neither do (plaintiffs) seek any restraint upon the Subcommittee itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“which had been approved by no one, either before or after its issuance.”
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.