Fix v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
368 F.2d 609 · 1966
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Fanning, Phillips & Molnar v. West (1998), Selman v. United States (1974)
4 federal appellate ·
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 5 U.S.C. § 911
Relies on Udall v. Tallman · Estate of J. William Bahen, Deceased, Kathleen Privett Bahen, Sole v. The United States · Burich v. United States · Anderson v. United States
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The unclear reference in the 1954 Act to "premium compensation * * * on an annual basis” does not necessarily mean that the agencies are forbidden to utilize such common administrative devices as quarterly reviews to help in computing the additional pay; those statutory words may simply mean that the starting point for calculating the percent of premium pay (e.g, 15%) shall be the annual wage. The administrators of a statute such as this have some leeway, and their implementing regulations should not be overturned unless clearly wrong. Here, in addition to the normal measure of discretion, there is the specific requirement in the Civil Service Commission’s regulation that the agencies should review premium pay determinations "at appropriate intervals” and discontinue payments or revise the rates where such action is necessary. 5 C.F.R. § 25.271 (a)(6) (1961). The Service’s adoption of the quarterly plan comes within that express authorization. [ 177 Ct. Cl. at 377 , 368 F.2d at 614 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson
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.