Silver v. Pataki’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 federal appellate · 3 district · 19 state decisions

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.

1. “Their claim is that the Act causes a type of institutional injury (the diminution of legislative power), which necessarily damages all Members of Congress and both Houses of Congress equally. Second, appellees do not claim that they have been deprived of something to which they personally are entitled. ... Rather, appellees’ claim of standing is based on a loss of political power, not loss of any private right, which would make the injury more concrete.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Russell v. DeJongh

2. “a litigant's power to appear and bring its grievance before the court”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Faltynowicz v. Battery Park City Auth. (In re World Trade Ctr. Lower Manhattan Disaster Site Litig.)