Irwin v. Veterans Administration’s Empirical Analysis
874 F.2d 1092 · 1989
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs (1991), Ynclan v. Department of the Air Force (1991)
12 federal appellate · 3 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Link v. Wabash Railroad · Brown v. General Services Administration · Smith v. Ayer · Coke v. General Adjustment Bureau, Inc. · Paterson v. Weinberger
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“less persuasive, since it involved interpretation of a CSC regulation, rather than its EEOC counterpart, and since it rested on Bell....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We are persuaded that the sufficiency of notice to a person's lawyer is so ingrained that we should expect Congress to say so if it intends a different rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rao v. Baker“of receipt of notice of final action taken”
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.