United States v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 15 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 264 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Capitol Leasing Company v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (1993), Wronke v. Marsh (1986)
82 federal appellate · 15 district · 18 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
Relies on Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · National Labor Relations Board v. Bell Aerospace Co. · Piper v. Chris-Craft Industries, Inc. · Texaco, Inc. v. Short
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 264 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although not determinative, the construction of a statute by those charged with its administration is entitled to great deference, particularly when that interpretation has been followed consistently over a long period of time.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“An employee who is promoted or transferred to a position in a higher grade is entitled to basic pay at the lowest rate of the higher grade which exceeds his existing rate of basic pay by not less than two step-increases of the grade from which he is promoted or transferred.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"(a) The rate of basic pay to which an employee is entitled is governed by regulations prescribed by the Civil Service Commission [now the Office of Personnel Management] in conformity with this subchapter and chapter 51 of this title when— "(1) he is transferred from a position in the legislative, judicial, or executive branch to which this subchapter does not apply; "(6) his employment status is otherwise changed; or "(7) his position is changed from one grade to another grade.””
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.