Lachance v. Devall’s Empirical Analysis
178 F.3d 1246 · 1999
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Van Wersch v. Department of Health & Human Services (1999), Guise v. Department of Justice (2003)
24 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1295 · 5 U.S.C. § 1104 · 5 U.S.C. § 1204 · 5 U.S.C. § 7503 · 5 U.S.C. § 7513 · 5 U.S.C. § 7701 · 5 U.S.C. § 7703
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Federal Election Commission v. Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee · United States v. Margie B. Mills, Robert Jack Mills · Parker v. United States Postal Service · Miguel v. Department of the Army
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the [MSPB] sustains fewer than all of the agency’s charges, the [MSPB] may mitigate to the maximum reasonable penalty so long as the agency has not indicated either in its final decision or during proceedings before the [MSPB] that it desires that a lesser penalty be imposed on fewer charges.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The courts are the final authorities on statutory construction. They must reject administrative constructions of the statute ... that are inconsistent with the statutory mandate or that frustrate the policy that Congress sought to implement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not all of the agency's charges are sustained, the Board will consider carefully whether the sustained charges warrant the penalty imposed by the agency.”
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.