Rucker v. Saxbe’s Empirical Analysis
552 F.2d 998 · 1977
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1991
7 federal appellate · 2 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 United States v. Wong Kim Ark · Schneider v. Rusk · United States of America v. Solomon Louis Ginsberg · Savorgnan v. United States · United States v. Ness
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“presents the excuse or hardship which might justify an abrogation of the congressional prerogative in setting administratively manageable standards . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . at no point along the line . . . when he (plaintiff) was full grown, did he undertake any rational inquiry”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“and he felt it more prudent not to ask lest it prevent him from entering the U.S. altogether”
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.