Devine v. Goodstein’s Empirical Analysis
669 F.2d 736 · 1981
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
December 1987
most recently cited
Relationships
Relies on Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · National Ass'n for Advancement of Colored People v. Civiletti · Worthington Compressors, Inc. v. Gorsuch
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he provision of the Civil Service Reform Act calling for parallel treatment of an arbitrator's award and the decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) leads to the same conclusion [namely, an arbitrator must file the record with the court].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]ecause the Director did not intervene in the matter when it was before the arbitrator, he petitioned the arbitrator for reconsideration as required by Sec. 7703(d).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Devine v. White · Devine v. Pastore“assure conformity between the decisions of arbitrators with those of the Merit Systems Protection Board”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Devine v. Goodstein
How this case has been treated — in progress
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