Steele v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
19 F.3d 531 · 1994
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2013
8 federal appellate · 3 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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2675 · 5 U.S.C. § 1214 · 5 U.S.C. § 2302
Relies on Bush v. Lucas · United States v. Fausto · Petrini v. Howard · Ayala v. Joy Manufacturing Co. · Berrios 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]ederal civil servants are now protected by an elaborate, comprehensive scheme that encompasses substantive provisions forbidding arbitrary action by supervisors and procedures--administrative and judicial--by which improper action may be redressed. They apply to a multitude of personnel decisions that are made daily by federal agencies.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brett L. Arron v. United States of America, Brett L. Arron v. United States of America Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service Indian Health Services Navajo Indian Health Service Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Timothy Fleming Douglas Peter Gary Escudero John Hubbard, National Health Service Corps Donald L. Weaver, Director of National Health Service Corps and Myriam Curet · Harder v. United States“Federal and state court actions 'complain[ing] of activities prohibited by the CSRA ... are preempted by the CSRA.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brett L. Arron v. United States of America, Brett L. Arron v. United States of America Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service Indian Health Services Navajo Indian Health Service Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Timothy Fleming Douglas Peter Gary Escudero John Hubbard, National Health Service Corps Donald L. Weaver, Director of National Health Service Corps and Myriam Curet · Harder v. United States“is defined under 5 U.S.C. 2302. Of this comprehensive CSRA claims procedure the Supreme Court said:”
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.