Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1985
1 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on Service v. Dulles · 128 Ct. Cl. 489 - Knotts v. United States · 90 F. Supp. 375 - Stringer v. United States · 127 F. Supp. 568 - Crocker v. United States · Hynning v. United States
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Had plaintiff been given the same treatment as other employees, the opportunity to be considered for reassignment to another position in the same lower level * * * would have been accorded him. Instead, plaintiff was reassigned and retained in an identical position to the one which had just been abolished by the reduction-in-force action. This placed plaintiff in the absurd position of having only himself to compete with in any future reduction in force.”
1 later decision 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.