Eicks v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 1985 · most notably Sanders v. United States (1979), Sanders v. United States (1979)
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2401
Relies on Friedman v. United States · Furlong v. United States · Capps v. United States · Uhley v. United States · 121 F. Supp. 674 - Uhley 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When Congress said that rulings of the Correction Boards should “be final and conclusive on all officers of the Government except when procured by means of fraud” ( 65 Stat. 655 ), it would overturn much of our thinking on justice to say that those words were intended to bar courts from awarding pay to military personnel when they had been deprived of their compensation by failure to correct their service record through arbitrary and capricious action. The correction boards were created to remedy wrongs not to confound them. Id. 172 F.Supp. at 448 , 145 Ct.Cl. at 527 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“cause of action arose on the refusal of the Board, after the Secretary’s disapproval, to correct plaintiffs record.” 145 Ct. Cl. at 526-27 , 172 F. Supp. at 448 . In Friedman v. United States the court stated that Eicks involved”
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.