Veit v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
746 F.2d 508 · 1984
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Saul v. United States (1991), Wallace v. Christensen (1986)
63 federal appellate · 10 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 5 U.S.C. § 2302 · 5 U.S.C. § 5401
Relies on Bush v. Lucas · Carducci v. Regan · Broadway v. Block · Retail Clerks Union Local 648 v. Hub Pharmacy, Inc.
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the comprehensive nature of the procedures and remedies provided by the CSRA indicates a clear congressional intent to permit federal court review as provided in the CSRA or not at all.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moore v. Glickman · Popelka“(1) for major personnel actions specified in the statute (“adverse actions”), direct judicial review after extensive prior administrative proceedings; (2) for specified minor personnel actions infected by particularly heinous motivations or disregard of law (“prohibited personnel practices”), review by the Office of Special Counsel, with judicial scrutiny “limited, at most, to insuring compliance with the statutory requirement that the OSC perform an adequate inquiry,” Cutts v. Fowler, supra, 692 F.2d [138] at 140; and (3) for the specified minor personnel actions not so infected, and for all other minor personnel actions, review by neither OSC nor the courts.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the federal courts have no power to review federal personnel decisions and procedures unless such review is expressly authorized by Congress in the CSRA or elsewhere.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blue v. Widnall · Popelka
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.