Goggin v. St Louis’s Empirical Analysis
702 F.2d 698 · 1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2017
4 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 38 U.S.C. § 2021
Relies on Fishgold v. Sullivan Drydock & Repair Corp. · McKinney v. Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad · Alabama Power Co. v. Davis · Tilton v. Missouri Pacific Railroad · Coffy v. Republic Steel Corp.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To be entitled to a promotion or advancement in benefits, a returning serviceman must show that the advancement would have been awarded simply by virtue of continued employment. If a promotion is at least partially dependent on the employer’s discretionary determination of fitness and ability, the Act does not accord the veteran a right to an automatic promotion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to be liberally construed for the benefit of those who left private life to serve their country.”
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.