Phillips v. General Services Administration’s Empirical Analysis
878 F.2d 370 · 1989
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2010
6 federal appellate · 2 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 5 U.S.C. § 7701 · 5 U.S.C. § 7703
Relies on Desist v. United States · Yates v. Manale
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.
“Insubordination by an employee is a willful and intentional refusal to obey an authorized order of a superior officer.”
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.