Robert A. Rodriguez v. Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr., Secretary of the Air Force’s Empirical Analysis
463 F.2d 837 · 1972
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 1992
17 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. § 292 · 5 U.S.C. § 701 · 5 U.S.C. § 706 · 5 U.S.C. § 7512
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · Harris v. New York · Dombrowski v. Pfister · McKart 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Rodriquez] was dismissed for falsification of records-an act which goes to [his] reliability, veracity, trustworthiness, ethical conduct, and certainly affects the efficiency of the service.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“will promote the efficiency of the service,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Embrey v. Hampton
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.