William J. Fitzpatrick v. Philip W. Snyder, Commander, Boston Naval Shipyard’s Empirical Analysis
220 F.2d 522 · 1955
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 1979
10 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on Lynch v. United States · Order of Railway Conductors of America v. Pitney · Tutun v. United States · United States v. Babcock · Order of Railway Conductors of America v. Pitney
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.
“has not shown . . . that his separation is in violation of a clear statutory right to be retained, that is to say, that the Regulation of the Civil Service Commission under which he was ordered separated is patently at variance with the clear provisions of § 12 of the Veterans Preference Act of 1944.”
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.