In re Aiken County’s Empirical Analysis
725 F.3d 255 · 2013
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 5 district ·
Relationships
Applies 2 U.S.C. § 683 · 42 U.S.C. § 10134 · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Buckley v. Valeo · United States v. Nixon · Butz v. Economou · William Marbury v. James Madison · Yick Wo v. Hopkins
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a President sometimes has policy reasons ... for wanting to spend less than the full amount appropriated by Congress for a particular project or program. But in those circumstances, even the President does not have unilateral authority to refuse to spend the funds”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The underlying policy debate is not our concern.... Our more modest task is to ensure, in justiciable cases, that agencies comply with the law as it has been set by Congress.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[P]rosecutorial discretion only encompasses the Executive Branch's power to decide whether to initiate charges for legal wrongdoing and to seek punishment, penalties, or sanctions. It does not include the power to disregard statutory obligations that apply to the Executive Branch.”
2 later decisions 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.