Brock v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
64 F.3d 1421 · 1995
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 8 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably Sommatino v. United States (2001), Lapka v. Chertoff (2008)
39 federal appellate · 8 district · 7 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2675 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 5 U.S.C. § 2302
Relies on Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson · Brown v. General Services Administration · Shaw v. Barr · Sheridan v. United States · Dock v. American Telephone & Telegraph Technologies
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“) ] is the exclusive remedy for all prohibited personnel actions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Just as every murder is also a battery, every rape committed in the employment setting is also discrimination based on the employee's sex.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“although the [supervisor's] rape and sexual assault of [the plaintiff] is sufficient to establish a claim of sexual discrimination, that conduct also constitutes more than sexual discrimination.”
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.