Downey v. Runyon’s Empirical Analysis
160 F.3d 139 · 1998
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably Lisa L. Fitzgerald v. William Henderson, Postmaster General, United States Postal Service (2001), Taylor, Carolyn v. Small, Lawrence M. (2003)
13 federal appellate · 8 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
Relies on Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · Brown v. General Services Administration · Hughey v. United States · Bowden v. United States · Stewart v. United States Immigration & Naturalization 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]n the case of any employee . . . who— “(A) has been affected by an action which the employee .. . may appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board, and “(B) alleges that a basis for the action was discrimination prohibited by [specified antidiscrimination statutes], “the Board shall, within 120 days of the filing of the appeal, decide both the issue of discrimination and the appealable action in accordance with the Board’s appellate procedures.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Mixed appeals to the MSPB are those appeals alleging an appealable action affected in whole or in part by prohibited discrimination.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“file a civil action [in district court] to the same extent and in the same manner as provided in”
2 later decisions 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.