Horner v. Andrzjewski’s Empirical Analysis
811 F.2d 571 · 1987
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Gardner v. Brown (1993), Gardner v. Derwinski (1991)
6 federal appellate ·
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 31 U.S.C. § 1341 · 5 U.S.C. § 2301 (Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002) · 5 U.S.C. § 5595 · 5 U.S.C. § 7512 · 5 U.S.C. § 7513 · 5 U.S.C. § 7703 · 5 U.S.C. § 8336
Relies on Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Commissioner v. Acker · Young v. Community Nutrition Institute · Bell v. United States · Covington v. Department of Health & Human Services
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, a long-standing interpretation of a statute by an agency charged with its administration must be upheld if reasonable.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Board's decision will have a substantial impact on a civil service law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Horner v. Jeffrey
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.