Broadway v. Block’s Empirical Analysis
694 F.2d 979 · 1982
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Carducci v. Regan (1983), Saul v. United States (1991)
62 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1491 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 5 U.S.C. § 1206 · 5 U.S.C. § 1302 · 5 U.S.C. § 2302 · 5 U.S.C. § 701 · 5 U.S.C. § 702
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Cort v. Ash · Bishop v. Wood · Arnett v. Kennedy
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“agency action is committed to agency discretion by law”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pinar v. Dole · Towers v. Horner“In balancing conflicting needs for efficiency and employee protection, [Congress] chose to make certain severe personnel actions, namely “adverse actions,” subject to judicial review, while leaving other “personnel actions,” including reassignments, to administrative discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“encourage aggrieved employees to bypass the statutory and administrative remedies in order to seek direct judicial relief and thereby deprive the Government of the opportunity to work out its personnel problems within the framework it has so painstakingly established”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dotson v. Griesa · Pinar v. Dole
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.