Friedman v. Schwellenbach’s Empirical Analysis
159 F.2d 22 · 1946
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 7 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Bailey v. Richardson (1950), Webster Groves Trust Co. v. Saxon (1966)
24 federal appellate · 7 district · 4 state decisions
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 Perkins v. Lukens Steel Co. · Decatur v. Paulding
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The United States has the right to employ such persons as it deems necessary to aid in carrying on the public business. It has the right to prescribe the qualifications of its employees and to attach conditions to their employment. The War Service Regulation which permits the removal from Federal service of one concerning whose loyalty to the government the Civil Service Commission entertains a reasonable doubt undoubtedly was reasonable and proper and the making of it was well within the scope of the authority conferred on the Commission by the Act and the two Executive orders.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In these circumstances the Commission’s finding is conclusive.””
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.