Schaffer v. Merit Systems Protection Board’s Empirical Analysis
751 F.2d 1250 · 1985
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Garcia v. Department of Homeland Security (2006), Gonzales v. Defense Logistics Agency (1985)
11 federal appellate ·
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. § 1205 · 5 U.S.C. § 5366 · 5 U.S.C. § 7701
Relies on Manning v. Merit Systems Protection Board · Atwell v. Merit Systems Protection Board · Thomas v. United States · Rose v. Department of Health & Human Services
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Board may grant a petition for review....”
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.