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391 F. Supp. 430 - Sigmon v. Poe’s Empirical Analysis

1975

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
December 1986
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “include a basis upon which the Board could properly find that her discharge was not 'arbitrary, capricious, discriminatory or for personal or political reasons.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “sharp tempers, impatience and scars from old animosities were revealed in a number of pointed exchanges,”
    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.