Knuckles v. Weinberger’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2008
1 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 Roe v. Wade · United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Marco Defunis et al. v. Charles Odegaard, President of the University of Washington. · United States v. Concentrated Phosphate Export Assn., Inc.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he fact that a statute requires construction by ... the court in order to determine what duties it creates does not mean that mandamus is not proper to compel the officer to perform the duty, once it is determined.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fallini v. Hodel
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.