Helm v. State of California’s Empirical Analysis
722 F.2d 507 · 1983
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Watkins v. United States Army (1989), Trerice v. Pedersen (1985)
18 federal appellate · 2 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. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 32 U.S.C. § 305 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Massachusetts Board of Retirement v. Murgia · Chappell v. Wallace · Streeter v. United States · William Radobenko and Mary G. Radobenko, His Wife, Individually and as Husband and Wife v. Automated Equipment Corporation, a California Corporation · Poe v. Ullman
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Summary] judgment ... shall be rendered ... if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the [supporting] affidavits [in the moving party’s favor], if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Scrutiniz[ing] numerous personnel decisions by many individuals as they relate to appellant's claim that he was improperly denied promotion”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“would involve the court in a very sensitive area of military expertise and discretion.”
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.