Angle v. Overton’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Jenkins v. Weatherholtz (1990), Zicca v. City of Hampton (1990)
6 federal appellate · 15 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 Knighton v. Louisiana · Town of Narrows v. Clear-View Cable TV. Inc. · Jones v. Carter · 5 Va. App. 248 - Marshall v. Commonwealth · City of Danville v. Franklin
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the governing body of every . . . city . . . which has more than fifteen employees shall have a grievance procedure for its employees that affords an immediate and fair method for the resolution of disputes which may arise between the public employer and its employees ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Obviously, if [the defendant] ... were free either to accept or to reject the panel’s decision, the decision would not be binding and the grievance procedure mandated by the General Assembly would be rendered impotent. We reject such a result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Either party may petition the circuit court having jurisdiction in the locality in which the grievant is employed for an order requiring implementation of the panel decision.”
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.