Phelps v. Reagan’s Empirical Analysis
812 F.2d 1293 · 1987
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 2007
7 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on Spiegel's Estate v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · Rath Packing Co. Creditors' Trust v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Americans United for Separation of Church & State v. Reagan
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by carefully limiting taxpayer standing to challenges of expenditures solely dependent upon the taxing and spending clause, made clear that one's status as a taxpayer did not confer upon one standing to challenge the exercise of other governmental powers. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Winkler v. Gates
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.