Wang v. Masaitis’s Empirical Analysis
416 F.3d 992 · 2005
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 15 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably Gross v. German Foundation Industrial Initiative (2006), Corrie ex rel. Corrie v. Caterpillar, Inc. (2007)
5 federal appellate · 15 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 Baker v. Carr · William Marbury v. James Madison · United States v. Raddatz · Banco Nacional De Cuba v. Sabbatino · Cooper v. Aaron
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 34 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; or [2] a lack of judicially discoverable and managea ble standards for resolving it; or [3] the impossibility of deciding -without an initial policy determination of a kind clearly for nonjudicial discretion; or [4] the impossibility of a court’s undertaking independent resolution without expressing lack of the respect due coordinate branches of government; or [5] an unusual need for unquestioning adherence to a political decision already made; or [6] the potentiality of embarrassment from multifarious pronouncements by various departments on one question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“normal principles of interpretation of the constitutional provisions at issue,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.