In Re Oliver North (Richard L. Armitage Fee Application)’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2023
3 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 Pierce v. Underwood · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Chadha · Lorillard v. Pons · Rivers v. Roadway Express, Inc. · In Re Oliver L. North (Dutton Fee Application)
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]or the language of the report to be controlling, it would have to be “either (1) an authoritative interpretation of what the [previously enacted] statute meant, or (2) an authoritative expression of what ... Congress intended.” It could not be the first because only the courts and not the legislature can “say what an enacted statute means.” It could not be the latter, because, by enacting the existing language ... Congress was reenacting the “settled judicial interpretation”---- “[Rjeenacting precisely the same language would be a strange way to make a change”---- The legislative history of a reenactment cannot change existing law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the investigation; 9 (3) to be reimbursable, the fees must be such as”
1 later decision 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.