Montgomery v. Eastern Correctional Institution’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
2 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Maryland Aviation Administration v. Noland (2005), Clancy v. King (2008)
2 district · 27 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.
Relationships
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 1201 (Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989) · 5 U.S.C. § 2302 · 5 U.S.C. § 7703
Relies on United Parcel Service, Inc. v. People's Counsel · Board of Physician Quality Assurance v. Banks · Spruill v. Merit Systems Protection Board · Christ v. Maryland Department of Natural Resources · Bd. of Ed. for Dorchester Co. v. Hubbard
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) discloses information that the employee reasonably believes evidences: (i) an abuse of authority, gross mismanagement, or gross waste of money; (ii) a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety; or (iii) a violation of law; or (2) following a disclosure under item (1) of this section seeks a remedy provided under this subtitle or any other law or policy governing the employee’s unit.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(b) Any employee who has authority to take, direct others to take, recommend, or approve any personnel action, shall not, with respect to such authority * * * (8) take or fail to take, or threaten to take or fail to take, a personnel action with respect to any employee or applicant for employment because of (A) any disclosure of information by an employee or applicant which the employee or applicant reasonably believes evidences (i) a violation of any law, rule, or regulation, or (ii) gross mismanagement, a gross waste of funds, an abuse of authority, or a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety, if such disclosure is not specifically prohibited by law and if such information is not specifically required by Executive order to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or the conduct of foreign affairs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where the purpose and language of a federal statute are substantially the same as that of a later state statute, interpretations of the federal statute are ordinarily persuasive”
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.