In Re Theodore Olson’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2018
10 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Buckley v. Valeo · United States v. Nixon · M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer · Nixon v. Administrator of General Services
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he statute is designed to ensure that violations of federal criminal law by high-ranking government officials (particularly those who are of the same party as the Administration in power) will be fairly and impartially investigated and prosecuted”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“independent counsel may ask the Attorney General or the division of the court to refer matters related to the independent counsel’s prosecutorial jurisdiction.” 5 . The Special Court indicated that”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“enjoy some measure of independence from the Executive Branch.”
2 later decisions 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.