Bendure v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
554 F.2d 427 · 1977
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Corus Staal BV v. United States (2007), Beebe v. United States (1981)
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 5343 (Prevailing Rate Equalization Adjustment Act of 1972) · 5 U.S.C. § 5545 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)
Relies on United States v. Western Pacific Railroad · Tennessee Coal Iron Co v. Muscoda Local No 123 Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co · United States v. Carlo Bianchi & Co. · Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Reddish · Jewell Ridge Coal Corporation v. Local No. 6167, United Mine Workers of America
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`to go through obviously useless motions in order to preserve [his] rights.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Office of Personnel Management, by regulation, shall prescribe practices and procedures for conducting wage surveys, analyzing wage survey data, developing and establishing wage schedules and rates, and administering the prevailing rate system. The regulations shall provide— (4) For proper differentials, as determined by the Office, for duty involving unusually severe working conditions or unusually severe hazards;”
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.