Cornelius v. Nutt’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
111 federal appellate · 15 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 319 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2020 · most notably Garcia v. Department of Homeland Security (2006), Curtin v. Office of Personnel Management (1988)
111 federal appellate · 15 district · 6 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Federal Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1295 · 31 U.S.C. § 1349 · 5 U.S.C. § 7101 · 5 U.S.C. § 7121 · 5 U.S.C. § 7701
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Kotteakos v. United States · Arnett v. Kennedy · United States v. Hasting · Lindahl v. Office of Personnel Management
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 319 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f the violation constitutes `a clear and patent breach of the terms of the agreement,' the union may file an unfair labor practice charge ....”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]ssues which can properly be raised under an appeals procedure may not be raised as unfair labor practices prohibited under this section. Except for matters wherein, under section 7121(e) and (f) of this title, an employee has an option of using the negotiated grievance procedure or an appeals procedure, issues which can be raised under a grievance procedure may, in the discretion of the aggrieved party, be raised under the grievance procedure or as an unfair labor practice under this section, but not under both procedures.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Error by the agency in the application of its procedures which, in the absence or cure of the error, would have been likely to cause the agency to reach a conclusion different than the one reached.”
2 later decisions 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.