Dancy v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
668 F.2d 1224 · 1982
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2008 · most notably Rick's Mushroom Service, Inc. v. United States (2008), Falicha Adams, an Infant by Her Parent and Natural Guardian, Paula Adams v. United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (1986)
10 federal appellate ·
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 10 U.S.C. § 1586 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1491 · 28 U.S.C. § 1506 · 28 U.S.C. § 2401 · 28 U.S.C. § 2675 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on Carey v. Piphus · Ingraham v. Wright · United States v. Neustadt · Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. v. United States · Kielwien v. United States
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An agency is accorded wide discretion in conducting a reduction-in-force; absent a clear abuse of that discretion, a substantial departure from applicable procedures, a misconstruction of governing statutes, or the like, we do not upset a final agency decision.”
2 later decisions 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.