Ryon v. J O'Neill’s Empirical Analysis
894 F.2d 199 · 1990
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably Saul v. United States (1991), Nyunt v. Chairman, Broadcasting Board of Governors (2009)
21 federal appellate · 6 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 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1361 · 28 U.S.C. § 1491 · 5 U.S.C. § 1206 · 5 U.S.C. § 1302 · 5 U.S.C. § 2301 (Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002) · 5 U.S.C. § 2302 · 5 U.S.C. § 4303
Relies on Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Morton v. Mancari · United States v. Fausto · Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Curran
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is hard to imagine that such an intricate statutory scheme was intended as a mere alternative to direct review in the federal courts ... ... [T]he text of the [Civil Service Reform Act], the structure of review it establishes, and the legislative history of the Act, all lead ineludibly to the conclusion that Congress intended review of agency reassignment decisions to be confined to the specific procedures set out in the text of the Civil Service Reform Act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“provides formal proceedings before the agency, and appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board, and judicial review in the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tiltti v. Weise“reflects a congressional intent that no judicial relief be available,”
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.