Edmond v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
147 federal appellate · 84 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 495 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Hahn (2004), Department of Commerce v. United States House of Representatives (1999)
147 federal appellate · 84 district · 10 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
Relies on Buckley v. Valeo · United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · Freytag v. Commissioner · Go-Bart Importing Co. v. United States · Busic 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 495 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments." U.S. Const. Art. II, § 2, cl. 2.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whose work is directed and supervised at some level by others who were appointed by Presidential nomination with the advice and consent of the Senate.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Ordinarily, where a specific provision conflicts with a general one, the specific governs.”
9 later decisions 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.