Beal v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
182 F.2d 565 · 1950
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024
3 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
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. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956)
Relies on Skidmore v. Swift & Co. · Armour & Co. v. Wantock · Maryland v. Baltimore Radio Show, Inc. · Burnap v. United States · Martin 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Here, . . . no Act of Congress appears which specifically creates the positions occupied and details the duties, tenure and emoluments of incumbents. The posts were filled under a blanket authority ( 5 U.S.C.A. sec. 43 ), which authorizes employment by each executive department and independent establishment of such clerks and other employees of various classes as may be appropriated for by Congress from year to year . . . . Appropriation acts do not create offices. There must be a basic authority for the creation of an office . . . . We think the sounder rule to be that an office of the United States does *Page 3 not exist unless it is created by some specific Act of the Congress . . . ." 182 F.2d at 567 -568 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“". . . the United States Supreme Court has emphasized in its most recent case on the subject [ Burnap ] that the `manner in which Congress has specifically provided for' the following three attributes of the position is the determining factor:”
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.