In re White’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district ·

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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 not disputed that a military court-martial has general jurisdiction to try a party for the military offense of desertion. * * * This covers the whole ground. Jurisdiction to determine whether the party is guilty of the offense necessarily involves tho jurisdiction to determine wliat constitutes the offense under the statute,—jurisdiction to construe the statute and adjudge what under the statute constitutes a good defense against the prosecution; and to determine whether or not the facts exist which are claimed to constitute a valid defense.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re McVey