Delbert v. Mathis v. Melvin R. Laird, Secretary of Defense’s Empirical Analysis
483 F.2d 943 · 1973
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 1991 · most notably Beller v. Middendorf (1980), Cook v. Arentzen (1978)
11 federal appellate · 5 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. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act)
Relies on United States v. Augenblick · Carter v. Seamans · Gallagher v. United States · Julian R. McClendon v. Winton M. Blount, Postmaster General
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mathis is seeking back pay and allowances from the date of his allegedly defective discharge to the present. He also seeks promotion to the grade he would have achieved had he suffered no adverse personnel action. Although his complaint is cast in terms of an action for mandamus and a declaratory judgment, the case is essentially one for a money judgment.”
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.