Larry v. Lawler’s Empirical Analysis
605 F.2d 954 · 1978
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Doe v. United States Department of Justice (1985), Old Dominion Dairy Products, Inc. v. Secretary of Defense (1980)
44 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Wolff v. McDonnell · Goldberg v. Kelly · Paul v. Davis
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“determination of the precise nature of the government function involved as well as the private interest that has been affected by governmental action.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Green v. Finley · Greene v. Finley“rises to the level of a constitutionally protected 'liberty' or 'property' interest.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he federal government is composed of many different agencies and departments, all of which could obtain the information under various circumstances. In effect, Larry has been stigmatized throughout the entire federal government. He is deprived of the opportunity to work in any capacity for any branch of the government.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.