Hallock v. Moses’s Empirical Analysis
731 F.2d 754 · 1984
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2005 · most notably Saul v. United States (1991), Spagnola v. Mathis (1988)
21 federal appellate · 1 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 5 U.S.C. § 2302
Relies on Bush v. Lucas · United States v. Standard Oil Co.
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.
“(8) take or fail to take a personnel action with respect to any employee ... as a reprisal for— A) a disclosure of information by an employee or applicant which the employee or applicant reasonably believes evidences— (i) a violation of any law, rule, or regulation, or (ii) mismanagement, a gross waste of funds, [or] an abuse of authority....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“request a job audit under the appropriate civil service provision(s) and follow the remedial system constructed by Congress to give federal employees, in [appellant's] position, appropriate relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pinar v. Dole“classic federal employment dispute of the type anticipated by Congress when it enacted the procedures in 5 U.S.C.A. Sec. 2302 (West Supp.1984).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. 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.