Ettinger v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
556 F.2d 692 · 1977
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably Losch v. Borough of Parkesburg (1984), Bayer v. United States Department of the Treasury (1992)
25 federal appellate · 7 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 Brown v. General Services Administration · Chandler v. Roudebush · Whitaker v. Coleman · Toebelman v. Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. · Colby v. Klune
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he agency shall extend the time limits in this section when the complainant shows that he/she was not notified of the time limits and was not otherwise aware of them....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] reference in an employee bulletin to a personnel manual, without more, is insufficient to bring home to the employee the required notification of complaint procedures”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[T]here is nothing from the VA in the record to suggest the dates of distribution of the employee bulletins, the manner of promulgating this information (i. e. whether employees were briefed about their rights and responsibilities as they were hired, or at intervals collectively, or individually or once collectively or individually, or whether the information was merely posted upon a bulletin board) and so on.” Id. 556 F.2d at 695 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Myles v. Schlesinger
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.