Whelchel v. McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
176 F.2d 260 · 1949
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1960 · most notably Bishop v. United States (1955), Whelchel v. McDonald (1950)
26 federal appellate · 1 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 10 U.S.C. § 1475 · 10 U.S.C. § 1509
Relies on Ex Parte Hawk No - on Rule to Show Cause and Return · Quirin Haupt Kerling Burger Heinck Thiel Neubauer United States Quirin v. Cox Usa 6 · Goto v. Lane · Ex parte Reed · Dynes v. Hoover
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under such regulations as the President may prescribe, the Judge Advocate General is authorized, upon application of an accused person, and upon good cause shown, in his discretion to grant a new trial, or to vacate a sentence, * * * in any court-martial case in which application is made within one year after final disposition of the case upon initial appellate review: Provided, That with regard to cases involving offenses committed during World War II, the application for a new trial may be made within one year after termination of the war, or after its final disposition upon initial appellate review as herein provided, whichever is the later: * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Osborn v. Swope
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.