Jackson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
428 F.2d 844 · 1970
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently July 2006 · most notably United States v. Connolly (1983), Hamlet v. United States (1989)
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. § 1491
Relies on Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Swaaley v. United States · Jacobowitz v. United States
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * [T]he constitutional protection of employees against removal because of petitioning for redress of grievance does not depend on the particular employee’s status or tenure. * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In view of the foregoing, and fully respecting the wish of the parties to have the case decided on the administrative record, we are unable to hold that there is no genuine issue of material fact, in view of the record, with respect to whether or not plaintiff was discharged as a reprisal for exercising his First Amendment right to petition for redress of grievances. This is the key fact issue in the case and before a decision is possible it must be resolved by trial. * * *”
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.