Thomas v. General Services Administration’s Empirical Analysis
794 F.2d 661 · 1986
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably PPG Industries, Inc. v. United States (1992), Bosley v. Merit Systems Protection Board (1998)
13 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on Raphan v. United States · Mother's Restaurant Incorporated v. Mama's Pizza Inc · Otherson v. Department of Justice, Immigration & Naturalization Service · Schapansky v. Department of Transportation
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i) the issue previously adjudicated is identical with that now presented, (ii) that issue was “actually litigated” in the prior case, (iii) the previous determination of that issue was necessary to the end-decision then made, and (iv) the party precluded was fully represented in the prior action.”
10 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.