Greenhill v. Spellings’s Empirical Analysis
482 F.3d 569 · 2007
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 42 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Atherton v. District of Columbia Office of the Mayor (2009), 503 F. Supp. 2d 163 - Wright v. Foreign Service Grievance Board (2007)
11 federal appellate · 42 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
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Kokkonen v. Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Mottley · Land US v. Dollar
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] document filed pro se is 'to be liberally construed,' and 'a pro se complaint, however inartfully pleaded, must be held to less stringent standards than formal pleadings drafted by lawyers.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“consider supplemental material ... to clarify the precise claims being urged,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“To provide an entire remedy and to complete the relief afforded by the judgment, the court may, as an incident of and collateral to any such judgment, issue orders directing restoration to office or position, placement in appropriate duty or retirement status, and correction of applicable records, and such orders may be issued to any appropriate official of the United States.”
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.