Johnnie C. Duncan v. Arthur E. Summerfield’s Empirical Analysis

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13 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 state decisions

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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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[A] dismissed government employee acts reasonably, and is not guilty of laches, if he awaits the result of a suit by another employee who was dismissed in similar circumstances. The Court of Claims said in Kaufman v. United States: ‘We do not see how any good purpose could have been served from the standpoint of either the Government or the three persons affected by instituting three different suits and having the Government defend all three and the plaintiffs put to the expense of employing attorneys and possibly paying court costs in all three cases. It was natural that only one should file suit since it was apparent that whatever decision was rendered in that suit would apply to all three cases. This 000 fully explains the delay of plaintiff in not filing suit until after the final decision in the [test] case * * *.’ 1950, 93 F. Supp, 1019, 1021 , 118 Ct. Cl. 91 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 37 Ill. App. 3d 1056 - People Ex Rel. Casey v. Health & Hospitals Governing Commission

2. “Duncan had discussed with his counsel the advisability of suing, but had been advised in the summer or late spring of 1954 to await the result of Cole's suit, which would be controlling.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jones v. Summerfield