Moore v. Devine’s Empirical Analysis
780 F.2d 1559 · 1986
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Diamond v. Atwood (1995), Laber v. Harvey (2006)
26 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 state decisions
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
Relies on Chandler v. Roudebush · Houseton v. Nimmo · Moore v. Devine
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may request enforcement by the district court without requesting and trying the merits of the claim.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“enforce final EEOC decisions favorable to federal employees when requested to do so.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“would require an employee who has successfully invoked an administrative scheme designed to bind agencies to remedy discrimination to prove his or her entire case again in federal court when the agency refuses to take the ordered corrective action. The result would undercut the utility of administrative dispute resolution....”
2 later decisions 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.