Cheney v. United States District Court for District of Columbia’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
579 federal appellate · 74 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,766 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2025 · most notably Mohawk Industries, Inc. v. Carpenter (2009), Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. (2007)
579 federal appellate · 74 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 10 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
reviewedIn re Cheney (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1361 · 28 U.S.C. § 1651 · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Berger v. United States · United States v. Nixon · Kerr v. United States Dist. Court for Northern Dist. of Cal. · Will v. United States
Cited together with Kerr v. United States Dist. Court for Northern Dist. of Cal. · Ex parte Fahey · Mohawk Industries, Inc. v. Carpenter · Will v. United States · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp.
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 1,766 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the issuing court, in the exercise of its discretion, must be satisfied that the writ is appropriate under the circumstances.”
83 later decisions quote this exact passage“is a `drastic and extraordinary' remedy `reserved for really extraordinary causes.'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“might distract [the executive branch] from the energetic performance of its constitutional duties”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Doe v. Shanahan · In re 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.