MacFarlane v. Grasso’s Empirical Analysis
696 F.2d 217 · 1982
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Official Committee of the Unsecureds of Color Tile Inc v. Coopers & Lybrand Llp Sa Abf Ec W J E III F Aibc Bv Cip, 64 Md. App. 442 - Leese v. Baltimore County (1985)
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 10 U.S.C. § 277 · 10 U.S.C. § 3015 · 10 U.S.C. § 591 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 32 U.S.C. § 106 · 32 U.S.C. § 108 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 5 U.S.C. § 702
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Perry v. Sindermann · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a nuclear submarine during a training flight. He also addressed letters on the same subject to a Major General Freund within the Guard, the Inspector General of the First United States Army, and the Office of Army Inspector General in Washington, D.C. These letters also complained about the treatment he received from Major General Freund in processing his defense against the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hughes v. Whitmer“it is axiomatic that the district court could not consider the defendants' statements of fact in assessing the sufficiency of the complaint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davidson v. Flynn“the interest of the State, as an employer, in promoting the efficiency of the public services it performs through its employees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.