Bledsoe v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
839 F.2d 1357 · 1988
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Watkins v. United States Army (1989), Adkins v. United States (1995)
11 federal appellate · 2 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 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 5 U.S.C. § 102
Relies on City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Rizzo v. Goode · Orloff v. Willoughby · Chappell v. Wallace · Gilligan v. Morgan
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“providing technical assistance for operation and maintenance of navigational and electrical systems on E2 aircraft”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mier v. Owens“and that the military officer's decision in this case did not readily lend itself to characterization as”
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.