Payson v. Franke’s Empirical Analysis
282 F.2d 851 · 1960
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 11 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably George W. Sohm v. Henry H. Fowler, Secretary of the Treasury (1966), Pauls v. Secretary of the Air Force (1972)
13 federal appellate · 11 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 Orloff v. Willoughby · United States Creary v. Weeks · Weeks v. United States ex rel. Creary
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not our function to reassess the appellant’s performance record which the selection board deemed unsatisfactory. * * * Suffice it to say that we are in no position to assess and appraise that record by itself even were we free to do so.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sohm v. Dillon · Sohm v. Dillon
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.