Ashton v. Civiletti’s Empirical Analysis
613 F.2d 923 · 1979
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 11 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Carducci v. Regan (1983), Kizas v. Webster (1983)
18 federal appellate · 11 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Perry v. Sindermann · Norton v. Macy · Matlovich v. Secretary of the Air Force
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has always had an absolute policy of dismissing proven or admitted homosexuals from its employ.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“those facts do not prevent the Bureau from giving its employees some security in their jobs,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for such cause as will promote the efficiency of [the] service,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doe v. Casey
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.