Grover v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently August 2002 · most notably United States v. Ven-Fuel, Inc. (1985), Am-Pro Protective Agency, Inc. v. United States (2002)
3 federal appellate ·
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 5 U.S.C. § 7501 (Civil Service Due Process Amendments) · 5 U.S.C. § 7512
Relies on Cree v. Goldstein · Illinois Power Co. v. Local Union No. 51, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · Rodriguez v. Lash · Keim v. United States · Desist 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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Where an administrative agency has complied with the prescribed procedural requirements, the Court of Claims can only review the action to determine whether the officials who effected the dismissal acted arbitrarily, capriciously or were so grossly erroneous as to be in bad faith, as for instance where they may have acted without substantial evidence to support their decision or where they exceeded their authority.”
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.