Beeson v. Hudson’s Empirical Analysis
630 F.2d 622 · 1980
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2016
11 federal appellate · 2 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 Bishop v. Wood · Butz v. Economou · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Califano v. Yamasaki · Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division v. Craft
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“can be dismissed at the virtually unreviewable discretion of his employing agency for unsatisfactory performance or conduct during the probationary period”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“probationary federal employee has in general only the weakest of claims of entitlement to his continued employment”
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.