Scherer v. Brennan’s Empirical Analysis
379 F.2d 609 · 1967
Citation profile
34 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (1972), Galella v. Onassis (1973)
34 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3056 (Presidential Protection Assistance Act of 1976)
Relies on Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco · See v. City of Seattle · Barr v. Matteo · United Gas Improvement Co. v. Continental Oil Co. · Spalding v. Vilas
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the action of the federal official bear some reasonable relation to and connection with his duties and responsibilities ...,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.