Doe v. Casey’s Empirical Analysis
796 F.2d 1508 · 1986
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 13 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2018 · most notably Webster v. Doe (1988), Watkins v. United States Army (1989)
34 federal appellate · 13 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
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 701 · 5 U.S.C. § 706 · 5 U.S.C. § 7501 (Civil Service Due Process Amendments) · 5 U.S.C. § 7513 · 50 U.S.C. § 403 (§ 102 of the National Security Act of 1947)
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Paul v. Davis
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'shall deem such termination necessary or advisable in the interests of the United States' ..., not simply when the dismissal is necessary or advisable to those interests.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State of North Dakota Ex Rel. Board of University and School Lands v. Clayton K. Yeutter, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Milton Hertz, Administrator of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service James M. Davis, Assistant Deputy Administrator of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, State of North Dakota Ex Rel. Board of University and School Lands v. Clayton K. Yeutter, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Milton Hertz, Administrator of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service Thomas A. Vongarlem, Assistant Deputy Administrator of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, State of North Dakota Ex Rel. Board of University and School Lands, Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Clayton K. Yeutter, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Milton Hertz, Administrator of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service James M. Davis, Assistant Deputy Administrator of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, Appellants/cross-Appellees. State of North Dakota Ex Rel. Board of University and School Lands, Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Clayton K. Yeutter, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Milton Hertz, Administrator of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service Thomas A. Vongarlem, Assistant Deputy Administrator of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, Appellants/cross-Appellees · Webster v. Doe“[T]he Director of Central Intelligence may, in his discretion, terminate the employment of any officer or employee of the Agency whenever he shall deem such termination necessary or advisable in the interests of the United States. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Webster v. Doe · Doe v. Gates“John Doe [was] proceeding under a pseudonym only because his status as a CIA employee cannot be publicly acknowledged, not because of any embarrassment about his homosexuality.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Doe v. Tenet · Doe v. Tenet
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.