Cunningham v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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

1. “I concur in the opinion and judgment of the court. As I said, concurring, in Cosby v. United States, 189 Ct.Cl. 528 , 530, 417 F.2d 1345 , 1346 (1969): If an employee’s continued presence in an agency is regarded as undesirable, and if he tenders any piece of paper purporting to be a resignation, the temptation is to snatch at it, thus avoiding the complex ritual and uncertain outcome of an adverse action. It is, I believe, the duty of the personnel officer nevertheless to scrutinize the paper with care, and to reject it as a resignation if it states, clearly or ambiguously, that the resignation is coerced. * * * The same is true if the statement is made in a separate communication submitted by the employee simultaneously or at any time before the purported resignation takes effect.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cruz v. Department of the Navy

2. ““Indeed the record in this case is replete with un-controverted affidavits that plaintiff was seriously ill, and mentally disturbed because of her fear of coercion and duress in her employment, and that her supervisors must have known of this condition at the time she resigned. This was the same evidence that * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cunningham

3. ““She vainly asked to present supporting evidence of duress at hearings before the Air Force Grievance Committee and the Civil Service Commission.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cunningham