Powell v. Katzenbach’s Empirical Analysis
359 F.2d 234 · 1965
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 13 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Adams v. Richardson (1973), Newman v. United States (1967)
42 federal appellate · 13 district · 5 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 Confiscation Cases · 193 F. Supp. 630 - Pugach v. Klein · Goldberg v. Hoffman · United States v. Brokaw
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that the question of whether and when prosecution is to be instituted is within the discretion of the Attorney General. Mandamus will not lie to control the exercise of this discretion .”
2 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.