Thomas W. Sanders v. John L. McClellan’s Empirical Analysis
463 F.2d 894 · 1972
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2017
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 2283
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Baker v. Carr · United States v. O'Brien · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Roth v. United States
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the judiciary has the duty 'of not lightly interfering with Congress' exercise of its legitimate powers.' Hutcheson v. United States, 369 U.S. at 622, 82 S.Ct. at 1017. We recently discussed this duty at some length in Ansara v. Eastland, supra.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A witness may address his claims to the Subcommittee, which may sustain objections. Were the Subcommittee to insist, however, upon some response beyond the witness’ conception of his obligation, and he refused to comply, no punitive action could be taken against him unless the full Committee obtained from the Senate as a whole a citation of the witness for contempt, the citation had been referred to the United States Attorney, and an indictment returned or information filed. Should prosecution occur, the witness’ claims could then be raised before the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the impossibility of a court's undertaking independent resolution without expressing lack of the respect due coordinate branches of the government”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.