United States v. Klein’s Empirical Analysis
80 U.S. 128 · 1871
Citation profile
235 federal appellate · 81 district · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 654 later decisions (70 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Chadha (1983), Carlson v. Green (1980)
235 federal appellate · 81 district · 74 state decisions — followed in 23 states
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.
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 654 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prescribe rules of decision to the Judicial Department of the government in cases pending before it.”
34 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“passed the limit which separates the legislative from the judicial power.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no new circumstances have been created by legislation.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Benjamin v. Jacobson · Michael Patrick Gavin, in His Own Behalf and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ed Clark, in His Own Behalf and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Terry Branstad Charles Palmer Walter Kautzky Herb Maschner John Emmett Larry Moline Charles Naugling Steven Korb Mike Foehring John Fullenkamp Eldon Degrange Fred Cole Ron Meyers Charles Free Randy Martin, United States of America, Intervenor Michael Patrick Gavin, in His Own Behalf and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ed Clark, in His Own Behalf and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Terry Branstad Charles Palmer Walter Kautzky Herb Maschner John Emmett Larry Moline Charles Naugling Steven Korb Mike Foehring John Fullenkamp Eldon Degrange Fred Cole Ron Meyers Charles Free Randy Martin, United States of America, Intervenor
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.