Humphrey v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
848 F.2d 211 · 1988
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 17 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Parker v. Department of Justice (1991), Michel v. Anderson (1994)
7 federal appellate · 17 district · 1 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 2 U.S.C. § 358
Relies on Powell v. McCormack · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Chadha · Ala Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States · Hicks v. Miranda · Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nder the doctrine of equitable discretion, the availability of an internally available remedy to Members of Congress means that it would be an abuse of discretion for the judiciary to entertain the action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Michel v. Anderson“The Senators and Representatives shall receive a compensation for their Servic es, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“From the founding of the Republic until 1967, Congressional pay was determined directly by Congress, in specific legislation setting specific rates of pay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carter v. Lehi City
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.