Dennis v. Lovett’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. ““It is for this Court, on a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, only to inquire into and determine whether or not the court martial before which a petitioner is tried was lawfully constituted, had jurisdiction of the person and offense, and imposed' a sentence .authorized by law. Beyond that the ■civil courts should not and cannot go. The Congress has constituted the system by which military law shall be administered, and it is not given to the •civil courts, beyond the jurisdiction of a military court, to inquire into the regularity of its proceedings for the correction of errors committed therein. Hiatt v. Brown, 339 U.S. 103 , 70 S.Ct. 495 , 94 L.Ed. 691 , decided March 13, 1950. The proceedings of the court martial in this case were considered and approved by 'the reviewing authority, which was accomplished by a full analysis of the proceedings by the Staff Judge Advocate of the Headquarters of the 20th Air Force. Thereafter a subsequent review was had by the Board of Review, and thereafter a- further review was had by the Judicial Council. Subsequently a review was had by the Judge Advocate General, United States Air Force, who, because of the extreme gravity of both the sentence, adjudged and the allegations made, in his capacity as ' supervisor of the administration of military justice generally, caused the Office of Special Investigations, Office of the Inspector General, to make a complete investigation of such matters. As the approval of the President of the Unite”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Burns v. Lovett