Cooper v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
628 F.2d 1208 · 1980
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2013 · most notably Parks School of Business, Inc. v. Symington (1995), Naton v. Bank of California (1981)
68 federal appellate · 12 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 Singleton v. Wulff · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · United States v. Kubrick · Brown v. General Services Administration · Lombard v. Marcera
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“contemplates the invocation of administrative remedies as a condition precedent to litigation”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“After this case arose, Congress provided an alternative remedy for federal employees in the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. Now they may proceed either under [Title VII] or by filing a complaint with the Merit Systems Protection Board.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To establish a basis for estoppel against the government, [plaintiff] must prove [among other enumerated elements]: ... that the time within which he did file was reasonable in light of all the circumstances.”); Ott, 600 F.2d at 34 n. 12 (in opposing a limitation defense where there is only unintentional error,”
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.