Clinton v. City of New York’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
390 federal appellate · 150 district · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,099 later decisions (53 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably McConnell United States Senator et al. v. Federal Election Commission et al. (2003), Clapper v. Amnesty International USA (2013)
390 federal appellate · 150 district · 84 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Warth v. Seldin · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Baker v. Carr · Buckley v. Valeo
Cited together with Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Chadha · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Warth v. Seldin · Allen v. Wright
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 1,099 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The [Supreme Court] routinely recognizes probable economic injury resulting from [government actions] that alter competitive conditions as sufficient to satisfy the [Article III injury-in-fact requirement].”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`borrowing power, financial strength, and fiscal planning,'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]very Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States: If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it.”
5 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.