Dickson v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.2d 234 · 1975
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2017
13 federal appellate · 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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Baker v. Carr · Flast v. Cohen · Schlesinger v. Reservists Committee to Stop the War · United States v. Richardson
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“challenge to the constitutionality of the Congressional Acts in question is a challenge to the power of the President and Congress to conduct the foreign affairs of the United States. Both the Congress and the President have determined that military and economic assistance to the State of Israel is necessary ... [and] a determination of whether foreign aid to Israel is necessary ... is a ‘question uniquely demanding] [of a] single-voiced statement of the Government’s views,’ quoting Baker, 369 U.S. at 211 , 82 S.Ct. 691 , and a decision ‘of a kind for which the Judiciary has neither aptitude, facilities nor responsibility ... ’ quoting Chicago & Southern Air Lines v. Waterman S S Corp., 333 U.S. 103, 111 , 68 S.Ct. 431 , 92 L.Ed. 568 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the appropriateness under our system of government of attributing finality to the action of the political departments.”
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.