Ryan v. Reno’s Empirical Analysis
168 F.3d 520 · 1999
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 27 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Hesse v. Department of State (2000), Rattigan v. Holder (2012)
17 federal appellate · 27 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Webster v. Doe · Department of the Navy v. Egan · Central Intelligence Agency v. Sims · Ogbomon v. United States
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clear the second step of McDonnell Douglas without running smack up against Egan .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he protection of classified information must be committed to the broad discretion of the agency responsible, and this must include broad discretion to determine who may have access to it. Certainly, it is not reasonably possible for an outside nonexpert body to review the substance of such a judgment and to decide whether the agency should have been able to make the necessary affirmative prediction with confidence. Id. at 529 , 108 S.Ct. 818 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an adverse employment action [is] based on denial or revocation of a security clearance,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Bush · Chien v. Sullivan
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.