Davis v. Passman’s Empirical Analysis
544 F.2d 865 · 1977
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2014 · most notably Davis v. Passman (1979), Beller v. Middendorf (1980)
29 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 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 Scheuer v. Rhodes · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Imbler v. Pachtman · Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Pierson v. Ray
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen members of Congress dismiss employees they are neither legislating nor formulating legislation. The fear of judicial inquiry into dismissal decisions cannot possibly affect a legislator's decisions on matters pending before Congress.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'intimately cognate' ... to the legislative process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““One could argue on Representative Passman’s behalf that calling him into court to defend any action, whether related to congressional business or to his personal contractors or torts, risks detracting him from ‘legislative tasks.’ Supreme Court decisions, however, make clear that the speech or debate clause does not prohibit all such distractions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.