Wright v. U.S. Postal Service’s Empirical Analysis
29 F.3d 1426 · 1994
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2023
8 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 634 · 39 U.S.C. § 401 · 39 U.S.C. § 409 · 39 U.S.C. § 410 · 41 U.S.C. § 601 (Contract Disputes Act of 1978) · 41 U.S.C. § 602
Relies on Blanton v. General Electric Credit Corp. · Federal Housing Administration, Region No. 4 v. Burr · Pearlman v. Reliance Insurance · Griffin v. United States · Henningsen v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘Prior to the waiver of immunity, subcontractors possessed an equitable right ..., but apparently lacked a remedy due to immunity. Any equitable rights held by subcontractors as against [the] US PS, which may have been unenforceable where sovereign immunity existed, became enforceable upon immunity being waived.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“39 U.S.C. § 409(a) ... grants the district courts original but not exclusive jurisdiction over actions by or against the USPS.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]ection 401(1) of the Postal Reorganization Act (”
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.