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937 F.2d 134 · 1991

Citation profile

41
cited by 41 later decisions
1
states following
March 2023
most recently cited

20 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Johnson v. Sawyer (1995), Gutierrez v. Flores (2008)

20 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions

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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. § 2680 · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 5 U.S.C. § 2302 · 5 U.S.C. § 552A (§ 3 of the Privacy Act of 1974) · 5 U.S.C. § 7702 · 5 U.S.C. § 7703

Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Carnegie v. United States · Bush v. Lucas · United States v. Fausto · Schweiker v. Chilicky

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

  1. “[t]he merit-system principles include treating employees fairly and equitably and with proper regard for their privacy and constitutional rights”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “balanc[ing] the legitimate interests of the various categories of federal employees with the needs of sound and efficient regulation.”
    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.