Riley v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
608 F.2d 441 · 1979
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 1996 · most notably Hary v. United States (1980), Hary v. United States (1980)
3 federal appellate ·
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 Sanders v. United States · Weiss v. United States · Yee v. United States · Yee 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The boards which considered plaintiff’s applications for correction found either that they were timely or that the delay was excusable in the interest of justice. The Officer Personnel Records Review Board granted plaintiff’s requested relief. We do not see any reason to challenge the decisions of these boards to entertain plaintiff’s claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“disturbed the picture of steady advancement and increased competence and efficiency which his record otherwise demonstrated.”); Guy, supra, 221 Ct. Cl. at 435-36, 608 F.2d at 872 (the missing OER”
1 later decision 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.