Andrews v. Benson’s Empirical Analysis
809 F.2d 1537 · 1987
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2013
4 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. § 8116
Relies on United States v. S.A. Empresa De Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense · Barr v. Matteo · George G. Allman v. W. H. Hanley · McGeever v. O'Byrne · Fireman's Fund Am. Ins. Co. v. Coleman
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]nless the statute specifically abrogates the common law right to sue a co-employee, it should not be interpreted to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bagola v. Kindt
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.