Tennessee v. Dunlap’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 15 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 149 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2018 · most notably Heller v. Doe Ex Rel. Doe (1993), Beller v. Middendorf (1980)
51 federal appellate · 15 district · 7 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedDunlap v. Tennessee (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Perry v. Sindermann · Union Electric Co. v. Environmental Protection Agency · Dunlap v. Tennessee
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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Notwithstanding any other provision of law and under regulations prescribed by the Secretary concerned— (1) a technician who is employed in a position in which National Guard membership is required as a condition of employment and who is separated from the National Guard or ceases to hold the military grade specified for his position by the Secretary concerned shall be promptly separated from his technician employment by the adju tant general of the jurisdiction concerned; (6) a technician shall be notified in writing of the termination of his employment as a technician and such notification shall be given at least thirty days prior to the termination date of such employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is nothing in the language or structure of § 709(e) ... to suggest that subsection (3)’s requirement of cause was intended to qualify subsection (l)’s mandate that termination of employment accompany separation from the Guard. Nor is there anything to suggest that subsection (3) was intended to have any bearing on whether one is separated from the Guard.”
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.