Harrington v. Schlesinger’s Empirical Analysis
528 F.2d 455 · 1975
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2024 · most notably Raines v. Byrd (1997), Harrington v. Bush (1977)
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 Flast v. Cohen · Schlesinger v. Reservists Committee to Stop the War · United States v. Richardson · Coleman v. Miller · Kennedy v. Sampson
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once a bill has become law, however, their interest is indistinguishable from that of any other citizen.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]f there were a clear and flagrant violation of congressional limitations upon expenditures, a court in a taxpayer suit might find its intervention appropriate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sierra Club v. Trump“present[ed] no constitutional challenge to any congressional appropriation,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sierra Club v. Trump
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.