McCall v. U.S. Postal Service’s Empirical Analysis
839 F.2d 664 · 1988
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Do-Well Machine Shop, Inc. v. United States (1989), King v. Department of the Navy (1997)
30 federal appellate · 1 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. § 151 (§ 1 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 5 U.S.C. § 7701
Relies on Barrentine v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. · Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company v. Buell · Town of Newton v. Rumery · Lynn's Food Stores, Inc. v. United States ex rel. U. S. Department of Labor, Employment Standards Administration, Wage & Hour Division · Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Cosmair, Inc.
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The waiver agreement in this case, like that in Rumery, reflects a rational judgment on the part of McCall____Because his choice was knowing and voluntary, the public interest against involuntary waivers of rights does not weigh against the enforcement of this agreement and it is not void as a matter of public policy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“I know and understand that I have appeal rights to the Merit Systems Protection Board with respect to appealing a removal action against me. By this agreement . . . I . . . of my own free will waive my rights to the Merit Systems Protection Board . . . for the period of my 1 year probation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ppeal rights to the Merit Systems Protection Board, Grievance-Arbitration and Equal Employment Opportunity complaint procedures are waived during this 1 year probationary period on any disciplinary action against Mr. McCall.”
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.