Cafeteria and Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473, Afl-Cio v. Neil H. McElroy Individually and as Secretary of Defense’s Empirical Analysis
284 F.2d 173 · 1960
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1995 · most notably Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroy (1961), Ross v. Sirica (1967)
14 federal appellate · 1 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath · Greene v. McElroy · Rodriguez v. New York · William Truax v. Mike Raich
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... No employed person has an inherent or natural right (that is, a right apart from statute, regulation, or contract) to any sort of process in respect to removal from his particular job. Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union v. McElroy, 109 [U.S.] AppDD [D.C.] 39, 284 F.2d 173 , affd 367 U.S. 886 , 6 LEd2d 1230 , 81 SCt 1734 [1743], reh den 368 U.S. 869 , 7 LEd2d 70 , 82 SCt 22 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Furthermore the provision of the Act to which we have referred excepts from publication ‘any matter relating solely to the internal management of an agency’. In so far as these regulations prescribe the authority of the commanding officer over an installation such as the Gun Factory, they relate to the internal management of the Navy.” 284 F.2d at 179 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holdman v. Olim
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.