De War v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
170 F.2d 993 · 1948
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1990
5 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on Quirin Haupt Kerling Burger Heinck Thiel Neubauer United States Quirin v. Cox Usa 6 · William Garland v. State of Washington · Reaves v. Ainsworth · United States French v. Weeks · Waite v. Overlade
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right of trial by jury guaranteed by the 6th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is not applicable in a trial by military court-martial. Hence, decisions respecting the right to trial by one's peers in civil courts are inapplicable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dodson v. Zelez“[W]hat constitutes due process in a trial by a military tribunal is gauged by the principles of military law exacted by the Congress....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dodson v. Zelez
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.