Goodwin v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2009 · most notably Hubbard v. Environmental Protection Agency (2000), Friedman v. United States (1962)
6 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 2501
Relies on Isserman v. Ethics Committee of Essex County Bar Ass'n · Moulthrope v. Matus · 80 F. Supp. 652 - Fischer v. Haeberle · Reynolds v. Lovett · Wettre v. Hague
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have in mind the obiter statement which we made in the case of Gregory v. United States, 107 F.Supp. 840 , 123 Ct.Cl. 794 , to the effect that Congress did not, in its provision that the recommendations of the Civil Service Commission to the employing agency as to corrective action should be mandatory, intend to include a recommendation as to back pay. We said that, since Congress had in mind, when it enacted this provision in amending the Veterans’ Preference Act in 1947, the probable future enactment of the express provision for back pay for all civil service employees which was made in the Act of June 10, 1948, C. 447, 62 Stat. 354 , 5 U.S.C.A. 652(b)(2), it did not intend the 1947 legislation to cover the question of back pay. The 1948 Act in fact made no provision for back pay for a demoted employee, such as the plaintiff was, its relief being limited to employees who were separated and later reinstated. Upon reconsideration, we think that our observations on this question in the Gregory case were mistaken. When Congress authorized the Civil Service Commission to hear the demoted veteran’s appeal and recommend to the employing agency correction of its treatment of him, it could not have been unaware that the most important element of relief for wrongful demotion, next to restoration to his former status, was back pay. We would, then, be reading out of Section 14 something which it plainly contains if we were to convert our dictum in the Gregory case into a decision. O”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * and it shall be mandatory for such administrative officer to take such corrective action as the Commission finally recommends: * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“be restored to his former rank as of . . . the date of his reduction in grade. Compliance with that recommendation would have required that the Naval Shipyard pay the plaintiff the wages he lost because of his demotion, back to the date of his demotion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.