Mings v. Department of Justice’s Empirical Analysis
813 F.2d 384 · 1987
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Caluza v. Brown (1995), Lachance v. Devall (1999)
14 federal appellate · 1 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. § 7513
Relies on Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Perry v. Sindermann · Connick v. Myers · Branti v. Finkel
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“penalty within the agency's discretion unless the severity of the agency's action appears totally unwarranted in light of all the factors.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the employee's misconduct is likely to have an adverse effect upon the agency's functioning.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only for such cause as will promote the efficiency of the service.”
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.