McIntosh v. Washington’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2018 · most notably District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), Women Prisoners of the District of Columbia Department of Corrections v. District of Columbia (1996)
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 46 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 927 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201
Relies on International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · Grayned v. City of Rockford · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“grant to the inhabitants of the District of Columbia powers of local self-government; modernize, reorganize, and otherwise improve the governmental structure of the District of Columbia; and, to the greatest extent possible, consistent with the constitutional mandate, relieve Congress of the burden of legislating upon essentially local District matters.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“whether the facts alleged, under all the circumstances, show that there is a substantial controversy, between parties having adverse legal interest, of sufficient immediacy and reality to warrant the issuance of a declaratory judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. In re D.M. · Matter of Dm“[i]n exercising our review function, we have acknowledged that `the core and primary purpose of the Home Rule Act ... was to relieve Congress of the burden of legislating upon essentially local matters' ...”
2 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.