Fowler v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
633 F.2d 1258 · 1980
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2018
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
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 5 U.S.C. § 3301 (Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998) · 5 U.S.C. § 7513
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroy · Arnett v. Kennedy · Richardson v. Belcher · Paige v. Harris
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.
“factors such as examinations required for positions in the Competitive Service, lack of understanding of the retarded person's ability to perform in a competitive work setting, and prejudice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“continuous work performance that substantially exceeds normal requirements in one or more important job elements over an extended period.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In March, 1971, Fowler was given a cash award in recognition of”
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.