Lawrence v. Staats’s Empirical Analysis
640 F.2d 427 · 1981
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2017
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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
Relies on Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Bolling v. Sharpe · United States v. American Trucking Associations · Brown v. General Services Administration
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.
“(1) all civil service positions in the executive branch, except — [positions not relevant here] ... (2) civil service positions not in the executive branch which are specifically included in the competitive service by statute; and (3). positions in the government of the District of Columbia which are specifically included in the competitive service by statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“employees ... in those units of the legislative ... branch ( ) of the Federal Government having positions in the competitive service”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lawrence v. Staats“in accordance with the civil service laws and regulations,”
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.