Lamont v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis
948 F.2d 825 · 1991
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Kadic v. Karadžić (1995), Wight v. BankAmerica Corp. (2000)
17 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
Applies 22 U.S.C. § 2151 (African Conflict Resolution Act) · 22 U.S.C. § 2174 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Warth v. Seldin · Baker v. Carr · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Allen v. Wright
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“founded in concern about the proper — and properly limited — role of the courts in a democratic society.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[1][A] textually demonstrable constitutional commitment of the issue to a coordinate political department; or [2] a lack of judicially discoverable and manageable standards for resolving it; or [3] the impossibility of deciding without an initial policy determination of a kind clearly for nonjudicial discretion; or [4] the impossibility of a court’s undertaking independent resolution without expressing lack of the respect due coordinate branches of government; or [5] an unusual need for unquestioning adherence to a political decision already made; or [6] the potentiality of embarrassment from the .multifarious pronouncements by various departments on one question.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Lamont v. Woods, 948 F.2d 825 , 831 (2d Cir. 1991) (internal quotations and citations omitted); see also Powell, 395 U.S. at 518. In Oetjen v. Central Leather Co., 246 U.S. 297 , 302 (1918), the Supreme Court held that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.