Marshall v. Stevens People & Friends for Freedom’s Empirical Analysis
669 F.2d 171 · 1981
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2015
15 federal appellate · 1 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 Buckley v. Valeo · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · United States v. Morton Salt Co. · Bates v. City of Little Rock
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“compelled disclosure of affiliation with groups engaged in advocacy”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress granted the Secretary broad powers of investigation [in § 521] in order to facilitate enforcement of the Act without resort to unnecessary litigation. Consequently, the Secretary may initiate an investigation without probable cause to believe that the Act has been violated.... The Secretary’s administrative powers of investigation have been likened to a grand jury, which unlike a court, ‘does not depend on a case or controversy for power to get evidence but can investigate merely on suspicion that the law is being violated, or even just because it wants assurance that it is not.’ United States v. Morton Salt Co., 338 U.S. 632 , 642-43, 70 S.Ct. 357 , 363-64, 94 L.Ed. 401 (1950).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Secretary shall have power when he believes it necessary in order to determine whether any person has violated or is about to violate any provision of this chapter (except subchapter II of this chapter) to make an investigation and in connection therewith he may enter such places and inspect such records and accounts and question such persons as he may deem necessary to enable him to determine the facts relative thereto. (Emphasis added.)”
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.