White v. Gates’s Empirical Analysis
253 F.2d 868 · 1958
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Utica Mutual Insurance Company v. Merle D. Vincent, Jr., Regional Director of the Third Region of the National Labor Relations Board (1967), Russell v. Hodges (1972)
40 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 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 Myers v. United States · Humphrey's Ex'r v. United States · California Water Service Co. v. City of Redding · United States v. Oregon · Federal Power Commission v. Sierra Pacific Power Co.
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Veterans’ preference in federal employment has been an established policy of Congress for many years. Encouragement and reward of military service are its rational basis. If it is unwise and costly, this does not make it unconstitutional. The Supreme Court and other courts have enforced it, and have done so without suggesting any possible constitutional difficulty [ 253 F.2d at 869 ],”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“without convening a three-judge court * * * a single judge may dismiss a complaint that * * * fails to raise a substantial constitutional question.”
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.