Phaire v. Merwin’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 1982
3 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
Applies 48 U.S.C. § 1591
Relies on Myers v. United States · Aircraft & Diesel Equipment Corp. v. Hirsch · Pacific States Box & Basket Co. v. White · Keim v. United States · Taylor v. Beckham
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““§ 530. Dismissals; procedure A department head may recommend the dismissal of any regu lar employee in his department when he considers that the good of the service will be served thereby. The department head shall give to the employee a written statement of the reasons for the dismissal and file a copy of such statement with the Government Secretary. The employee shall have an opportunity to file with the department head a written statement regarding the dismissal, a copy of which shall be filed with the Government Secretary. The Government Secretary shall recommend to the appointing authority the action he deems desirable, and such dismissal shall become effective if approved by the appointing authority.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Felix v. Government““ * * * This contention is likewise without merit. It may well be regarded as somewhat incongruous to provide, as (the statute) does, that the Governor must approve, as Governor, his own decisions as appointing authority, particularly since his power to appoint government employees is vested in him as Governor by section 11 of the Revised Organic Act of 1954, 48 U.S.C.A., § 1591 . But this is a matter for the Legislature to correct by amendment of the statute. The duplication does not prejudice the plaintiff’s rights. Indeed, if anything, it would, if she had pursued her statutory remedy, have afforded her an additional opportunity to obtain relief.” (Ibid.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.