Blaze v. Payne’s Empirical Analysis
819 F.2d 128 · 1987
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2006
11 federal appellate · 4 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 29 U.S.C. § 794A · 39 U.S.C. § 1001 · 39 U.S.C. § 1003 · 39 U.S.C. § 1005 · 39 U.S.C. § 101 (Air Carriage of International Mail Act) · 39 U.S.C. § 1209 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Middlesex County Sewerage Authority v. National Sea Clammers Assn. · McNair v. United States Postal Service · Gaj v. United States Postal Service · Blair v. United States Postal Service
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]either the language of the statute nor its legislative history shows that Congress intended to create a private remedy.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“establish procedures ... to assure its officers and employees meaningful opportunities for promotion and career development and to assure its officers and employees full protection of their employment rights by guaranteeing them an opportunity for a fair hearing on adverse actions, with representatives of their own choosing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here is no room for the weedlike implied remedy, sought by Blaze in the flourishing garden of express employee remedies created pursuant to the Postal Reorganization Act.”
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.