Davis v. Woodring’s Empirical Analysis
111 F.2d 523 · 1940
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 11 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1985 · most notably Patterson v. Lamb (1947), Harmon v. Brucker (1957)
16 federal appellate · 11 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 50 U.S.C. § 226
Relies on Work v. United States Rives · Runkle v. United States · United States v. Eliason · Hurley v. Crawley
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No enlisted person, lawfully inducted into the military service of the United States, shall be discharged from said service without a certificate of discharge, and no enlisted person shall be discharged from said service before his term of service has expired, except in the manner prescribed by the Secretary of the Department of the Army, or by sentence of a general or special court-martial.” Section 16 of Title 10, U.S.Oode, 10 U.S.C.A. § 16 , provides: “The President is authorized to make and publish regulations for the government of the Army in accordance with existing laws, which shall be in force and obeyed until altered or revoked by the same authority: Provided, That said regulations shall not be inconsistent with the laws of the United States.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“150. Blank forms for discharge and final statements will be furnished by the Adjutant General’s Department and will be retained in the personal custody of company commanders. Discharge certificates will be used in the discharge of enlisted men and for no other purpose, and will be of three classes: For honorable discharge, for discharge, and for dishonorable discharge. They will be used as follows: 1. The blank for honorable discharge, when the soldier’s conduct has been such as to warrant his reenlistment and his service has been honest and faithful. 2. The blank for dishonorable discharge, for dishonorable discharge by sentence of a court martial or a military commission. 3. The blank for discharge when the soldier is discharged except as specified under sections 1 and 2 of this paragraph (C. A. R. Nos. 14 and 34).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Patterson v. Lamb
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.