Bragg v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
592 F.2d 1136 · 1979
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Ciralsky v. Central Intelligence Agency (2004), Bayer v. United States Department of the Treasury (1992)
36 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 · Bethel v. Jefferson · Ettinger v. Johnson · De Medina v. Reinhardt · Ettinger v. Johnson
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If it is clear that the plaintiff may not start over again with a properly drawn complaint, because of limitations problems or otherwise, the action is treated as final and the order is appealable.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[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....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thornhill v. Marsh“extinguish[ ] the plaintiff's cause of action.”
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.