Ward v. Merit Systems Protection Board’s Empirical Analysis
981 F.2d 521 · 1992
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Ellison v. Merit Systems Protection Board (1993), Marano v. Department of Justice (1993)
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
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. § 1213 · 5 U.S.C. § 1214 · 5 U.S.C. § 1221 · 5 U.S.C. § 2302 · 5 U.S.C. § 7701
Relies on Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. Boston & Maine Corp. · Manning v. Merit Systems Protection Board · Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement & Power District v. United States
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he purpose of the requirement that an employee exhaust his or her remedies before the Special Counsel before appealing to the Board is to give the Special Counsel the opportunity to take corrective action before involving the Board in the case. For the exhaustion remedy to serve its intended purpose, however, the employee must inform the Special Counsel of the precise ground of his charge of whistle-blowing. He must "give the Office of Special Counsel sufficient basis to pursue an investigation which might have led to corrective action." Knollenberg, 953 F.2d at 626 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“seek corrective action from the Special Counsel before seeking corrective action from the Board.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the agency would have reached the same ultimate result”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fleshman v. West
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.