Morris v. Gressette’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
182 federal appellate · 84 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 485 later decisions (40 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2020 · most notably Cannon v. University of Chicago (1979), Heckler v. Ringer (1984)
182 federal appellate · 84 district · 23 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 29 U.S.C. § 482 · 42 U.S.C. § 1973B (§ 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965) · 42 U.S.C. § 1973C (§ 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965) · 5 U.S.C. § 701 · 5 U.S.C. § 702 · 5 U.S.C. § 704 · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · United States v. Nixon · United States v. United Mine Workers of America
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 485 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... Congress intended to provide covered jurisdictions with an expeditious alternative to declaratory judgment actions. ... Although there was to be no bar to subsequent constitutional challenges to the implemented legislation, there also was to be no dragging out of the extraordinary federal remedy beyond the period specified in the statute."”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCain v. Lybrand · Dupree v. Mabus“It is now well settled that 'judicial review of a final agency action by an aggrieved person will not be cut off unless there is persuasive reason to believe that such was the purpose of Congress.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“except to the extent that (1) statutes preclude judicial review; or (2) agency action is committed to agency discretion by law.”
7 later decisions 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.