Gragg v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
717 F.2d 1343 · 1983
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2011
9 federal appellate ·
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 5 U.S.C. § 7703
Relies on United States v. Adams · Bell v. Brown · Gonzalez v. Stanford Applied Engineering, Inc. · Decker v. Anheuser-Busch · Craig v. Department of Health, Education & Welfare
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Sjervice upon a litigant’s ‘agent authorized by appointment or by law to receive service of process’ generally constitutes service upon a litigant that is legally equivalent to service upon the litigant himself. Fed.R.Civ.P. 4(d)(1).”
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.