Beard v. General Services Administration’s Empirical Analysis
801 F.2d 1318 · 1986
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Briggs v. Merit Systems Protection Board (2003), Forest v. Merit Systems Protection Board (1995)
14 federal appellate · 2 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. § 7501 (Civil Service Due Process Amendments) · 5 U.S.C. § 7701
Relies on Arnett v. Kennedy · Truong Dinh Hung v. United States · Butz v. Glover Livestock Commission Co. · Hayes v. Department of the Navy · Connecticut v. Glidden
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless the penalty exceeds the range of permissible punishment specified by statute or regulation, or unless the penalty is 'so harsh and unconscionably disproportionate to the offense that it amounts to an abuse of discretion.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brook v. Corrado“[D]etermination of an appropriate penalty is a matter committed primarily to the sound discretion of the employing agency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brook v. Corrado
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.