Scalise v. Thornburgh’s Empirical Analysis
891 F.2d 640 · 1989
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Iddir v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (2002), Tucker v. United States Department of Commerce (1992)
23 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 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 18 U.S.C. § 4100 · 18 U.S.C. § 4101 · 18 U.S.C. § 4102 · 21 U.S.C. § 301 (Animal Drug Amendments of 1968) · 28 U.S.C. § 1361 · 42 U.S.C. § 2011 (Atomic Energy Act of 1954) · 42 U.S.C. § 2201 (Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009) · 42 U.S.C. § 7403
Relies on Pierce v. Underwood · Meachum v. Fano · Heckler v. Chaney · Olim v. Wakinekona · Hormel v. Helvering
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Attorney General is authorized--... to make regulations for the proper implementation of such treaties in accordance with this chapter.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“compel an officer or employee of the United States or any agency thereof to perform a duty owed to the plaintiff.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“agency action is committed to agency discretion by law,”
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.