Hightower v. Kirksey’s Empirical Analysis
157 F.3d 528 · 1998
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2018
6 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
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 8705 · 5 U.S.C. § 8709
Relies on Lehigh Valley Cooperative Farmers, Inc. v. United States · Flaherty v. Gas Research Institute · Hudgins v. Brown · United States v. Whren · Sears v. Austin
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the aim of Congress in amending FEGLIA was to establish, for reasons of administrative convenience, an inflexible rule that a beneficiary must be named strictly in accordance with the statute, irrespective of the equities in a particular case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“signed and witnessed writing received before death in the employing office.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Terry v. LaGrois
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.