In Re: Richard B Cheney Vice President of the United States et Als’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
43 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably 898 F. Supp. 2d 233 - National Security Counselors v. Central Intelligence Agency (2012), 460 F. Supp. 2d 139 - Ross v. United States (2006)
43 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 Heckler v. Ringer · Cheney v. United States District Court for District of Columbia · Public Citizen v. United States Department of Justice · Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. St. Francis Xavier Parochial School · Sanchez-Espinoza v. Reagan
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“confers jurisdiction on the district courts over actions ... to compel an officer or employee of the United States or any agency thereof to perform a duty owed to the [petitioner],'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[I]f there is no clear and compelling duty under the statute as interpreted, the [Court] must dismiss the action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Congress could not have meant that participation in committee meetings or activities, even influential participation, would be enough to make someone a member of the committee.... Separation-of-powers concerns strongly support this interpretation of FACA. In making decisions on personnel and policy, and in formulating legislative proposals, the President must be free to seek confidential information from many sources, both inside the government and outside.”
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.