Webster v. Doe’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
693 federal appellate · 353 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,751 later decisions (39 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Enrico St Cyr (2001), Janet Reno, Attorney General v. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee et al. (1999)
693 federal appellate · 353 district · 22 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMorgan v. United States (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Baker v. Carr · United States v. Nixon · Weinberger v. Salfi · Kerr v. United States Dist. Court for Northern Dist. of Cal.
Cited together with Heckler v. Chaney · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Bowen v. Michigan Academy of Family Physicians · Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Johnson v. Robison
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 1,751 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where Congress intends to preclude judicial review of constitutional claims its intent to do so must be clear.”
47 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the statute is drawn so that a court would have no meaningful standard against which to judge the agency's exercise of discretion.”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall deem such termination necessary or advisable in the interests of the United States.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. Milas · Stewart v. Azar
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.