Phillips v. Bergland’s Empirical Analysis
586 F.2d 1007 · 1978
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1997 · most notably Hayes v. Department of the Navy (1984), Whisenhunt v. Spradlin (1983)
34 federal appellate · 1 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 Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · National Labor Relations Board v. Columbian Enameling & Stamping Co. · Barrett v. United States · Gooding 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when the employee misconduct is off-duty and non-work related ... the courts have been generally unwilling to presume that the discharge will promote the efficiency of the service”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reviewing court must at least be able to discern some reasonably foreseeable, specific connection between an employee's potentially embarrassing (homosexual) conduct and the efficiency of the service”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is reasonable to conclude that it would directly relate either to the employee's ability to perform approved tasks or to the agency's ability to carry out its mission.”
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.