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Cross v. United States Postal Service’s Empirical Analysis

733 F.2d 1327 · 1984

Citation profile

32
cited by 32 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
February 2000
most recently cited

24 federal appellate · 1 district ·

Relationships

Applies 39 U.S.C. § 101 (Air Carriage of International Mail Act) · 39 U.S.C. § 401 · 39 U.S.C. § 410 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)

Relies on Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · United States v. Sherwood · Brown v. General Services Administration · Griggs v. Provident Consumer Discount Co. · United States v. King

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.

  1. “is not less amenable to judicial process than a private enterprise under like circumstances would be,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  2. “deliberately lifted by Congress when it created the Postal Service,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “to sue and be sued in its official name.”
    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.