Sofranoff v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 1999
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 10 U.S.C. § 831 · 10 U.S.C. § 934
Relies on Service v. Dulles · Clackum v. United States · Joseph De Luca v. Robert B. Anderson, Secretary of the Treasury · Clackum v. United States · Murray 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendant argues that any defect in the procedure by which plaintiff was discharged was cured when he received a discharge under honorable conditions. We do not agree. This form of discharge is, as defendant concedes, less than an honorable one. The contention which defendant now makes was expressly rejected in Murray v. United States, 154 Ct. Cl. 185, 188 (1961). Since the vast majority of discharges from the armed forces are honorable, the issuance of any other type of discharge stigmatizes the ex-serviceman. It robs him of his good name. It injures his economic and social potential as a member of the general community. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.