Berg v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2013
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 29 U.S.C. § 411 · 29 U.S.C. § 412
Relies on Hall v. Cole · Heyman v. Commerce & Industry Insurance · Costello v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders, Blacksmiths, Forgers & Helpers v. Hardeman · Parks v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A) served with written specific charges; (B) given a reasonable time to prepare his defense; (C) afforded a full and fair hearing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he notice must `be so drafted as to inform a member with reasonable particularity of the details of the charges.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the passage of time between the alleged offense and Berg’s receipt of the notice, when combined with the number of orders received by him, rendered [the date] of little consequence. No reference whatsoever is made to the content of the order or to the place where the order was given, although this information was apparently within the knowledge of Berg's accusers....”
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.