Dumas v. Merit Systems Protection Board’s Empirical Analysis
789 F.2d 892 · 1986
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Spruill v. Merit Systems Protection Board (1992), Schultz v. United States Navy (1987)
25 federal appellate · 2 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. § 7701
Relies on 111 F. Supp. 945 - Fruhauf Southwest Garment Co. v. United States · Covington v. Department of Health & Human Services · Scharf v. Department of the Air Force · Manning v. Merit Systems Protection Board · Burgess v. Merit Systems Protection Board
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the alleged facts are sufficient to support a prima facie case of involuntariness, the issue can not be summarily determined adversely; the petitioner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing on the issue . . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“allege facts which if proven could make a prima facie case of involuntariness,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“jurisdiction and substance are inextricably intertwined”
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.