Barnes US v. Kline’s Empirical Analysis
759 F.2d 21 · 1984
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 7 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Raines v. Byrd (1997), Bowsher v. Synar (1986)
9 federal appellate · 7 district · 6 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 16 U.S.C. § 792 (§ 1 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 1 U.S.C. § 106 · 1 U.S.C. § 106A · 22 U.S.C. § 2370 · 2 U.S.C. § 288B · 44 U.S.C. § 3502 · 50 U.S.C. § 403J (Servicemembers Civil Relief Act) · 8 U.S.C. § 1254 (§ 244 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Baker v. Carr · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Allen v. Wright · Singleton v. Wulff
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would have made a mockery of [Hamilton's] quotation of Montesquieu to the effect that 'of the three powers above mentioned ... the JUDICIARY is next to nothing.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“enormous power that the judiciary would acquire”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,”
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.