Lockman v. Van Voris’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 1993
2 federal appellate ·
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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The present record establishes that the petitioner’s certification of eligibility and his actual appointment resulted from the ineptness on the part of the appropriate administrative authorities in regard to their failure to make a preliminary determination as to whether or not he met the required visual acuity standard. Nevertheless, it is apparent that, unlike the situation in the Wolff case, the faulty certification of eligibility did not result from any determination by the Civil Service Commission over which it alone had power and jurisdiction. The legislature * * * has expressly prohibited the employment of persons as police officers who do not meet specific physical requirements * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The Legislature in [§ 58(l)(c) ] has expressly prohibited the employment of persons as police officers who do not meet specific physical requirements. That such requirements are formulated pursuant to a delegation of power by the Legislature does not change their status into a matter over which the Civil Service Commission would have jurisdiction and power to de-termine_ The certification and appointment having been in direct violation of section 58 of the Civil Service Law, the petitioner’s termination.... must be affirmed.”
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.