Oklahoma v. United States Civil Service Commission’s Empirical Analysis
330 U.S. 127 · 1947
Citation profile
195 federal appellate · 63 district · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 576 later decisions (48 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Flast v. Cohen (1968), Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath (1951)
195 federal appellate · 63 district · 63 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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
reviewedOklahoma v. United States Civil Service Commission (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · Massachusetts v. Mellon · Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · United Public Workers of America v. Mitchell
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 576 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as not depriving the national government of authority to resort to all means for the exercise of a granted power which are appropriate and plainly adapted to the permitted end.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(w)hile the United States is not concerned with, and has no power to regulate, local political activities as such of state officials, it does have power to fix the terms upon which its money allotments to states shall be disbursed.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) An employee in an Executive agency or an individual employed by the government of the District of Columbia may not (1) use his official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with or affecting the result of an election; or (2) take an active part in political management or in political campaigns. For the purpose of this subsection, the phrase `an active part in political management or in political campaigns' means those acts of political management or political campaigning which were prohibited on the part of employees in the competitive service before July 19, 1940, by determinations of the Civil Service Commission under the rules prescribed by the President. "(b) An employee or individual to whom subsection (a) of this section applies retains the right to vote as he chooses and to express his opinion on political subjects and candidates.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. 718 F. Supp. 125 - State of Conn., DHR v. USMSPB · State of Utah and Vernon P. Bridge v. United States of America and the United States Civil Service Commission, State of Utah and Horace J. Gunn v. United States of America and the United States Civil Service Commission, State of Utah and Panos J. Georgopoulos v. United States of America and the United States Civil Service Commission
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.