Hofer v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
581 F.2d 975 · 1978
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably Kizas v. Webster (1983), Mondy v. Secretary of the Army (1988)
24 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 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 Brown v. General Services Administration · Richardson v. Wiley · Hintson Richardson v. Richard E. Wiley, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission. Hintson Richardson v. Richard E. Wiley, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission · Clark v. Goode
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[an] aggrieved employee cannot provisionally accept the Board's decision, await the outcome of mandated Agency corrective measures, and, if dissatisfied, request the Civil Service Commission to reopen and reconsider the decision and thereby revive his claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Loe v. Heckler“(w)ithin thirty days of receipt of notice of final action taken by . . . the Civil Service Commission . . . on a complaint of discrimination . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Gaballah v. Johnson“[A]n aggrieved claimant could revive at any time his claim, however stale, by the simple expedient of filing ... a request to reopen.”
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.