Paroczay v. Hodges’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably 55 Fair empl.prac.cas. 1675, 57 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 40,952 Julio M. Cruz v. Department of the Navy (1991), Giglio v. Dunn (1984)
15 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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) · 28 U.S.C. § 1491
Relies on Johnson v. Stevenson · Patterson v. Medberry · Distinti v. Cunningham · Paroczay v. Hodges · Borak v. Biddle
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i)f the resignation was involuntarily given ... then plaintiff's separation from government employment constituted a discharge, and he would be entitled to certain procedural rights ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““the said J. J. Davis said, ‘if you do not resign now, I will press charges [of homosexual conduct] immediately. As soon as I go into the front office, I will start proceedings;’ I asked the said J. J. Davis for a few days to think the matter over and he said, ‘No, once you leave this office, I will start proceedings right now. Sign now;’ without advice of counsel or an opportunity to discuss the matter with my wife or friends, and being apprehensive of being held up to public obloquy, I signed a ‘form’ resignation * * Id. at 92 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harris v. Nixon“There was no demand for an immediate resignation under threat of immediate charges. The employee was not told to ‘sign now.’ He was given three days within which to consider the course he would adopt. A request for opportunity to consult family and friends was not rejected. * * * ” Paroczay v. Hodges, supra, 219 F.Supp. at 93 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harris v. Nixon
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.