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Steffan v. Cheney’s Empirical Analysis

920 F.2d 74 · 1990

Citation profile

19
cited by 19 later decisions
March 2007
most recently cited

7 federal appellate · 8 district ·

Relationships

Relies on Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Bell v. United States · Walter O. Boswell Memorial Hospital v. Heckler · Attorney General of United States v. Irish People Inc · Black Panther Party v. Smith

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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “dissent at 718, is simply not accurate, and therefore the dissent's contention that we have reversed the prior panel decision is incorrect. Our entire treatment of the question was contained in the following footnote: 72 The Government now argues that Steffan's admission of homosexuality raised a”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[t]he record is clear that [Steffan] was separated from the Naval Academy based on his admissions that he is a homosexual rather than on any evidence of misconduct,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “unless [ ] conduct was a basis for his separation.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

How this case has been treated — in progress

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