Campbell v. Deviny’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 1994
6 federal appellate · 3 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. § 1001
Relies on Perkins v. Lukens Steel Co. · Tutun v. United States · Keim v. United States · United States v. Babcock · Mine Safety Appliances Co. v. Forrestal
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The controversy involves the internal administration of a Federal Agency and is one which the courts for more than one hundred years have firmly and consistently refused to entertain. As a matter of public policy the courts will not assume to control the actions of executive officers in the exercise of their judgment and discretion in the complex field of personnel management. To do so would be to usurp the function and prerogative placed by law in the executive. * * * Few principles of law are more definitely established than that in which the courts express forbearance in matters involving the internal administration of the executive branch. Interference by the courts in such matters would be productive of nothing but mischief. * * * The courts have announced adherence to this principle in many decided cases.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is clear that Congress intended to limit the rights of returning veterans to reemployment in the Federal Service to administrative action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he failure to grant judicial enforcement of such rights was not an oversight by Congress”
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.