Gibson v. Department of Veterans Affairs’s Empirical Analysis
160 F.3d 722 · 1998
Citation profile
21 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Briggs v. Merit Systems Protection Board (2003), Carr v. Social Security Administration (1999)
21 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 Anthony R. Hambsch, III v. Department of the Treasury, United States Secret Service · Industrial Addition Ass'n v. Commissioner · Dittmore-Freimuth Corp. v. United States · Jackson v. Veterans Administration · McCall v. U.S. Postal 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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law; (2) obtained without procedures required by law, rule, or regulation having been followed; or (3) unsupported by substantial evidence.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is settled that an employee can waive the right to appeal in a last-chance agreement.”
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.