Vergara v. Hampton’s Empirical Analysis
581 F.2d 1281 · 1978
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2016 · most notably Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois (1990), Marcial v. Coronet Insurance (1989)
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Sosna v. Iowa · Graham v. Richardson · Mathews v. Diaz · Brewer 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prescribe such regulations for the admission of individuals into the civil service in the executive branch as will best promote the efficiency of . . . (the federal civil) service.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“as a result of decisions made by Congress and the President”
1 later decision 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.