Horner v. Jeffrey’s Empirical Analysis
823 F.2d 1521 · 1987
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Hamlet v. United States (1995), Killip v. Office of Personnel Management (1993)
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 10 U.S.C. § 3682 · 10 U.S.C. § 6116 · 10 U.S.C. § 6959 · 10 U.S.C. § 8682 · 10 U.S.C. § 971 · 5 U.S.C. § 2101 (Federal Workforce Restructuring Act of 1994) · 5 U.S.C. § 2105 · 5 U.S.C. § 7703
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Morton v. Mancari · Richards 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“illogical and unfair to allow a retired military officer who was educated at the public's expense at one of the service academies and who subsequently enters government civil service upon his retirement from the military to receive credit for his military academy time for the purposes of civil service retirement”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“must reject administrative constructions ... that are inconsistent with the statutory mandate or that frustrate the policy that Congress sought to implement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“§ 971 Service credit: officers may not count service performed while serving as cadet or midshipman (b)-In computing length of service for any purpose, service as a cadet or midshipman may not be credited to any of the following officers: (3) An officer of the Coast Guard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.