Colbath v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
341 F.2d 626 · 1965
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 1982 · most notably Taylor v. United States (1979), Ainsworth v. United States (1968)
2 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 Keim v. United States · Eberlein v. United States · Robert S. McNamara Secretary of Defense v. Joseph W. Dick
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Anyone who has a family recognizes that hardships may result when the head of the family is put to the choice of moving to another city or relinquishing his position when the Government agency in which he is employed decides to transfer his functions elsewhere. The consequences of such a move may include a departure from surroundings in which the family is happy and well adjusted, a transfer of children to other schools, financial losses, and increased living costs. Substantial as these hardships often are, they do not constitute a type of damage for which this court can grant relief.” Colbath et al. v. United States, 341 F.2d 626, 632 , 169 Ct.Cl. 414, 424 (1965).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cohen v. McNamara“The Civil Service Commission, which is in the best position to interpret its own regulations, found after it had investigated the facts and held a hearing that a transfer of functions did, in fact, occur. * * *”
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.