Blackmon v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
205 F.2d 13 · 1953
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2005 · most notably Meehan v. Macy (1968), Newell M. Hargett v. Arthur E. Summerfield (1957)
19 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
Relies on Powell v. Branman · Watson v. Pace · Watson v. Pace · Blackmon v. Lee
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Adverse action against an employee shall not be taken except for such cause as will promote the efficiency of the service. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meehan v. Macy
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.