Premachandra v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
739 F.2d 392 · 1984
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably Rivera v. United States (1991), Berry v. Hollander (1991)
21 federal appellate · 6 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 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2680 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 5 U.S.C. § 7513 · 5 U.S.C. § 7701
Relies on Brown v. General Services Administration · Bush v. Lucas · Rayonier Incorporated v. United States a Arnhold · Infelice v. United States · United States v. Demko
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[h]ad Congress intended for such decisions to be reviewable in district courts in the context of actions under the Federal Tort Claims Act, it would not have so precisely defined the civil service remedy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress addressed the problem of wrongful termination decisions, and determined which consequential harms ought to be recompensed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[A] precisely drawn, detailed statute pre-empts more general remedies.”
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.