Davis v. Veterans Administration’s Empirical Analysis
792 F.2d 1111 · 1986
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Pope v. United States Postal Service (1997), Law v. United States Postal Service (1988)
9 federal appellate · 1 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. § 7501 (Civil Service Due Process Amendments) · 5 U.S.C. § 7513
Relies on Weston v. U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development · Rubin v. United States
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“permit employees to remain away from work without leave would seriously impede the function of an agency.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“by its very nature disrupts the efficiency of the service.”
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.