Butler v. West’s Empirical Analysis
164 F.3d 634 · 1999
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 34 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Hamilton v. Geithner (2012), Bonds v. Leavitt (2011)
22 federal appellate · 34 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 Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · Brown v. General Services Administration · Patsy v. Board of Regents of Fla.
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law,”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f any time after ... (B) the 120th day following the filing of an appeal with the Board under subsection (a)(1) of this section, there is no judicially reviewable action ... an employee shall be entitled to file a civil action to the same extent and in the same manner as provided in section 7171(c) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here, as here, a plaintiff first elects to file an appeal to [the] MSPB, an Administrative Judge is assigned to the case and 'takes evidence and eventually makes findings of fact and conclusions of law.'”
2 later decisions 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.