Doe v. Hampton’s Empirical Analysis
566 F.2d 265 · 1977
Citation profile
102 federal appellate · 28 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 216 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably United Steelworkers of America v. Marshall (1980), United States v. Burton (1978)
102 federal appellate · 28 district · 6 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 Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Perry v. Sindermann · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory
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 216 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ascertained by an examination of the provision's language, its context, and any available extrinsic evidence.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“cautious in applying the doctrine of harmless administrative error when basic procedural rights have been implicated. See Yiu Fong Cheung v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, 135 U.S.App.D.C. 244, 248 , 418 F.2d 460, 464 (1969) (refusal to apply doctrine, though deportability clear, in face of extensive violations of agency deportation regulations promulgated for obvious benefit of prospective deportees).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“10 As the court in Doe v. Hampton, 566 F.2d 265 (D.C.Cir.1977), aptly stated: 20 In law as well as logic, there must be a clear and direct relationship demonstrated between the articulated grounds for an adverse personnel action and either the employee's ability to accomplish his or her duties satisfactorily or some other legitimate governmental interest promoting the”
2 later decisions 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.