Chadha v. Immigration & Naturalization Service’s Empirical Analysis
634 F.2d 408 · 1980
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 7 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2016 · most notably Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Chadha (1983), United States v. Windsor (2013)
72 federal appellate · 7 district · 11 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Baker v. Carr · Buckley v. Valeo · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘[T]he twin purposes of preventing concentrations of power dangerous to liberty and of promoting governmental efficiency are served if we define a constitutional violation of the separation of powers as [1] an assumption by one branch of powers that are central or essential to the operation of a coordinate branch, [2] provided also that the assumption disrupts the coordinate branch in the performance of its duties and [3] is unnecessary to implement a legitimate policy of the Government.’ ” Id. at 196 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“all matters on which the validity of the final order is contingent.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“on which the final order of deportation is contingent.”
3 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.