Powell v. McCormack’s Empirical Analysis
395 F.2d 577 · 1968
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2015
9 federal appellate · 5 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Baker v. Carr · Bell v. Hood · Pierson v. Ray · Reynolds v. Sims
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[1] a textually demonstrable constitutional commitment of the issue to a coordinate political department; [2] or a lack of judicially discoverable and manageable standards for resolving it; [3] or the impossibility of deciding without an initial policy determination of a kind clearly for non judicial discretion; [4] or the impossibility of a court’s undertaking independent resolution without expressing lack of the respect due coordinate branches of government; [5] or an unusual need for unquestioning adherence to a political decision already made; [6] or the potentiality of embarrassment from multifarious pronouncements by various departments on one question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Creque v. Roebuck“[a]n interlocutory or permanent injunction restraining the enforcement, operation or execution of any Act of Congress for repugnance to the Constitution of the United States shall not be granted by any district court or judge thereof unless the application therefor is heard and determined by a district court of three judges under section 2284 of this title.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[F]or any Speech or Debate in either House [the members of Congress] shall not be questioned in any other place.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stamler v. Willis
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.