Smith v. Merit Systems Protection Board’s Empirical Analysis
813 F.2d 1216 · 1987
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2022
8 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 5 U.S.C. § 4301 · 5 U.S.C. § 4302 · 5 U.S.C. § 4303 · 5 U.S.C. § 4304 · 5 U.S.C. § 7511 · 5 U.S.C. § 7701
Relies on Philbrook v. Glodgett · United States v. Morton · Ballentine v. Merit Systems Protection Board · Lovshin v. Department of the Navy · Thomas v. United States
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.
“any action which is appealable to the Board under any law, rule, or regulation.”
2 later decisions 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.