Community for Creative Non-violence v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
786 F.2d 1199 · 1986
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably In re Sealed Case (1988), Federal Election Commission v. NRA Political Victory Fund (1993)
13 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 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 5 U.S.C. § 701
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Linda R. S. v. Richard D. · Poe v. Ullman · Samuel Bailey v. Joe T. Patterson · Newman v. United States
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he power to decide when to investigate, and when to prosecute, lies at the core of the Executive's duty to see to the faithful execution of the laws,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The prospect that prosecution will, at least in the future, result in payment of support,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“can, at best, be termed only speculative.”
1 later decision 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.