Dellums v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
797 F.2d 817 · 1986
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2004 · most notably Yesler Terrace Community Council v. Cisneros (1994), United States v. Tucker (1996)
15 federal appellate · 3 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 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 956 · 18 U.S.C. § 960 · 28 U.S.C. § 591 · 28 U.S.C. § 595
Relies on Allen v. Wright · Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization · Block v. Community Nutrition Institute · Dunlop v. Bachowski · City of Davis v. Coleman
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because ... Congress intended to preclude review at the behest of private citizens.... Congress did not intend to create procedural rights in private citizens sufficient to support standing to sue.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“create procedural rights, the invasion of which constitutes injury-in-fact and suffices to support standing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fernandez“may request in writing that the Attorney General apply for the appointment of an independent counsel,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.