Thomas J. Boylan v. Donald A. Quarles, Secretary of the Air Force’s Empirical Analysis
235 F.2d 834 · 1956
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 1985
13 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Sweet v. United States · Capital Service, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board · Oliphant v. Atlantic Coast Line R. · Carter v. Forrestal · Powell v. Branman
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o substantial departure from applicable procedures, no misconstruction of governing legislation, nor any like error going to the heart of the administrative determination. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Saggau v. Young
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.