Elder v. Brannan’s Empirical Analysis
341 U.S. 277 · 1951
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently April 1990 · most notably Lodge 1858, American Federation of Government Employees v. Paine (1970), Russell v. Hodges (1972)
58 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 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
reviewedElder v. Brannan, Secretary of Agriculture. Furman v. Brannan, Secretary of Agriculture (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Hilton v. Sullivan · Stancin v. United States · Elder v. Brannan, Secretary of Agriculture. Furman v. Brannan, Secretary of Agriculture · Brannan v. Elder
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In any reduction in personnel in any civilian service of any Federal agency, competing employees shall be released in accordance with Civil Service Commission regulations which shall give due effect to tenure of employment, military preference, length of service, and efficiency ratings: * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is entitled to be retained in preference to competing nonpreference employees who have equal or lower efficiency or performance ratings. However, this provision by its terms applies only to”
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.