Polos v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
621 F.2d 385 · 1980
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2014 · most notably Lindahl v. Office of Personnel Management (1985), Wilson v. Taylor (1981)
20 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 32 U.S.C. § 709 (National Guard Technicians Act of 1968) · 38 U.S.C. § 2021 · 38 U.S.C. § 2022 · 50 U.S.C. § 3808 · 5 U.S.C. § 8331 (Capitol Police Retirement Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 8333 · 5 U.S.C. § 8337
Relies on Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · United States v. Testan · Carey v. Piphus · Arnett v. Kennedy · Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a special and unusual restriction on judicial examination, and under it courts are not as free to review Commission retirement decisions as they would be if the “finality” clause were not there. . . . [Ajt best, a court can set aside the Commission’s determination “only where there has been a substantial departure from important procedural rights, a misconstruction of the governing legislation, or some like error ‘going to the heart of the administrative determination.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.