Lawrence v. Acree’s Empirical Analysis
665 F.2d 1319 · 1981
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 14 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably Windsor v. The Tennessean (1983), Gibson v. United States (1986)
30 federal appellate · 14 district · 5 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 Imbler v. Pachtman · Butz v. Economou · Owen v. City of Independence · Davis v. Passman · Barr v. Matteo
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The strong governmental interest in having a frank and honest assessment of ... employee work performance is absolutely essential to the proper rendering of ... services to our citizens. A supervisor’s candid evaluation promotes efficient government by enabling an agency to identify and reward truly outstanding performance and to identify and correct, and on occasion to dispense with, performance that is unsatisfactory.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... it can be argued that official powers, since they exist only for the public good, never cover occasions where the public good is not their aim, and hence that to exercise a power dishonestly is necessarily to overstep its bounds. A moment’s reflection shows, however, that that cannot be the meaning of the limitation without defeating the whole doctrine. What is meant by saying that the officer must be acting within his power cannot be more than that the occasion must be such as would have justified the act, if he had been using his power for any of the purposes of whose account it was vested in him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hewitt v. Grabicki“If two or more persons ... conspire to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat, any person ... from discharging any duties [of any office, trust or place of confidence under the United States] ... or to injure him in his person or property on account of his lawful discharge of the duties of his office, or while engaged in the lawful discharge thereof ... the party so injured or deprived may have an action for the recovery of damages occasioned by such injury or deprivation, against any one or more of the conspirators.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.