Blaha v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
511 F.2d 1165 · 1975
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably Starr v. Federal Aviation Administration (1978), Department of the Navy Military Sealift Command v. Federal Labor Relations Authority (1988)
10 federal appellate · 4 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. § 1491 · 5 U.S.C. § 5342 · 5 U.S.C. § 5348 · 5 U.S.C. § 5544 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 6301 (Federal Employees Family Friendly Leave Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 6305
Relies on Keeble v. United States · Bruce v. United States · Morris v. Florida · Amell v. United States · Daniels v. United States
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'public interest' exception [in § 5348] was written to provide flexibility needed to eliminate anomalies and inequities that might arise from a too literal conformity to industry pay practices.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“as nearly as is consistent with the public interest”, not to Government shoreside practice, but to private industry practice afloat: The reference to Blaha leads me to the observation that the court’s decision also collides head-on with the basic holding in Blaha . Strangely, the court relies on Blaha despite Judge Nichols’ pronouncement in that case that: We think the”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * shall be fixed and adjusted from time to time as nearly as is consistent with the public interest in accordance with prevailing rates * * *”
2 later decisions 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.