Flynn v. Shultz’s Empirical Analysis
748 F.2d 1186 · 1984
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Frolova v. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1985), Banks v. Secretary of the Indiana Family & Social Services Administration (1993)
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 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
Applies 22 U.S.C. § 1732 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1361 · 5 U.S.C. § 706 · 50 U.S.C. § 1801 (§ 101 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978)
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Washington v. Texas · Mathews v. Diaz · Harris v. McRae · Reid v. Covert
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.
“judicially discoverable and manageable standards for resolving”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whenever it is made known to the President that any citizen of the United States has been unjustly deprived of his liberty by or under the authority of any foreign government, it shall be the duty of the President forthwith to demand of that government the reasons of such imprisonment; and if it appears to be wrongful and in violation of the rights of the American citizenship, the President shall forthwith demand the release of such citizen, and if the release so demanded is unreasonably delayed or refused, the President shall use such means, not amounting to acts of war, as he may think necessary and proper to obtain or effectuate the release ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“proceed[ing] fully cognizant of the constitutionally committed powers of the executive in the area of foreign affairs”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.