Dr. Joseph Gilbert v. Donald Johnson and Dr. Marc J. Musser’s Empirical Analysis
490 F.2d 827 · 1974
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably Davis v. Board of School Commissioners (1975), Spain v. Mountanos (1982)
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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.
Relationships
Relies on William Marbury v. James Madison · Penfield Co of California v. Securities & Exchange Commission · Union Tool Co. v. Wilson · Lamb v. Cramer · California Artificial Stone Paving Co. v. Molitor
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The stated position of the Veterans Administration is unsatisfactory as to why it has . . . failed to immediately hold a hearing.” Gilbert v. Johnson, 490 F.2d 827 (5 Cir. 1974)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“with the right to receive, until the effective date of a decision by a Board convened by the Veterans Administration in accordance with this order, all the salary and other rights and privileges pertaining to the classification and status he held prior to separation, with the proviso that the defendants are not required, at this time, to permit plaintiff to actually perform the duties of Associate Chief of Staff at the Atlanta Veterans Administration Hospital; ____ 17”
1 later decision 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.