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← 133 SCT 596 - Kloeckner v. Solis

Kloeckner v. Solis’s Empirical Analysis

2012

Citation profile

98
cited by 98 later decisions
7
cited 7 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
April 2019
most recently cited

30 federal appellate · 12 district · 2 state decisions

Appellate journey

reviewedKloeckner v. Solis (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)

Relationships

Applies 29 U.S.C. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 29 U.S.C. § 633A (§ 15 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 5 U.S.C. § 1101 (Civil Service Miscellaneous Amendments) · 5 U.S.C. § 7512 · 5 U.S.C. § 7702

Relies on United States v. Fausto · Williams v. Department of Army · Elgin v. Department of the Treasury · Ballentine v. Merit Systems Protection Board · Harms v. Internal Revenue Service

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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[i]f the MSPB upholds the personnel action (whether in the first instance or after the agency has done so), the employee again has a choice: She may request additional administrative process, this time with the EEOC, or else she may seek judicial review.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Kerr v. Jewell · Kerr v. Merit Sys. Prot. Bd.
  2. “even the most formidable argument concerning the statute's purposes could not overcome the clarity [of] the statute's text.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Tree of Life Christian Sch. v. City of Upper Arlington · Brandon v. Guilford Cnty. Bd. of Elections
  3. “(A) has been affected by an action which the employee ... may appeal to the [MSPB], and”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Conforto v. Merit Systems Protection Board · Perry v. Merit Systems Protection Bd.

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.