Murray v. Buchanan’s Empirical Analysis
720 F.2d 689 · 1983
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2010
12 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 2 U.S.C. § 61D
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Powell v. McCormack · Hagans v. Lavine · M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · School District of Abington Township Pennsylvania v. Schempp J Murray III
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We perceive no tenable basis for a claim that the very congressional practice deliberately traced by the Court in Marsh should be subject to further review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“fail[ed] to raise a substantial constitutional question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kurtz v. Baker“unbroken ... for two centuries in the National Congress,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kurtz v. Baker
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.