Charles E. Chaudoin v. Clarence E. Atkinson, Jr’s Empirical Analysis
494 F.2d 1323 · 1974
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 16 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by William Sheppard, Insurance Commissioner v. National Association of Flood Insurers, an Unincorporated Association (1975), New Jersey Air National Guard v. Federal Labor Relations Authority (1982)
26 federal appellate · 16 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 Perry v. Sindermann · Yakus v. United States · National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. National Assn. of Railroad Passengers · White v. United States · Marietta Norton v. The Discipline Committee of East Tennessee State University
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is an agency or an agent of the United States.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * Action to compel an officer of the United States to perform his duty “The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any action in the nature of mandamus to compel an officer or employee of the United States or any agency thereof to perform a duty owed to the plaintiff.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"(1) a technician who is employed in a position in which National Guard membership is required as a condition of employment and who is separated from the National Guard or ceases to hold the military grade specified for his position by the Secretary concerned shall be promptly separated from his technician employment by the adjutant general of the jurisdiction concerned.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.