Morrison v. Work’s Empirical Analysis

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45 federal appellate · 9 district · 11 state decisions

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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The case at bar is unlike those in which relief by injunction has been granted against the head of an executive department, or other officer, of the government to enjoin an official act on the ground that it was not within the authority conferred, or that it was an improper exercise of'such authority, or that Congress lacked the power to confer the authority exercised. In those eases the act complained of either involved an invasion or denial of a definite right of the plaintiff (American School of Magnetic Healing v. McAnnulty, 187 U. S. 94 , 23 S. Ct. 33 , 47 L. Ed. 90 ), or it operated to cast a cloud upon his property (Noble v. Union River Logging R. R. Co., 147 U. S. 165 , 13 S. Ct. 271 , 37 L. Ed. 123 ).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. v. Farley · Lukens Steel Co. v. Perkins

2. “like a mandamus, is an extraordinary remedial process which is granted, not as a matter of right but in the exercise of sound judicial discretion.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Heckler v. Lopez a-145 · 373 F. Supp. 2d 7 - In Re Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation

3. “depriv[ed the Indians] of property in violation of the Constitution.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mary Bartlett, on Behalf of Josephine Neuman v. Otis R. Bowen, Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services · Bartlett ex rel. Neuman v. Bowen