Kennedy v. Whitehurst’s Empirical Analysis
690 F.2d 951 · 1982
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 26 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Sullivan v. Board of Police Commissioners (1985), Reichman v. Bonsignore, Brignati & Mazzotta P.C. (1987)
25 federal appellate · 26 district · 3 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 Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper · 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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any person aggrieved may bring a civil action in any Federal district court of competent jurisdiction for such legal or equitable relief as will effectuate the purposes of this chapter.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any personnel action of any department, agency, or other entity referred to in subsection (a) of this section shall not be subject to, or affected by, any provision of this chapter, other than the provisions of section 631(b) of this title and the provisions of this section.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gillispie v. Helms
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.