Franks v. Nimmo’s Empirical Analysis
683 F.2d 1290 · 1982
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2016
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Mathews v. Eldridge · Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · McKart v. United States · Sampson v. Murray · Public Serv. Comm'n of Utah v. Wycoff Co.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such appointments as described in subsection (a) of this section shall be for a probationary period of two years and the record of each person serving under such appointment in the Medical, Dental, and Nursing Services shall be reviewed from time to time by a board, appointed in accordance with regulations of the Administrator, and if said board shall find him not fully qualified and satisfactory he shall be separated from the service.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Franks v. Nimmo
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.