20 F. Supp. 2d 78 - McDougall v. Widnall’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
14 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2014
14 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. § 1552 · 10 U.S.C. § 632 · 5 U.S.C. § 702 · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Camp v. Pitts · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Florida Power & Light Co. v. Lorion · Pelaes 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Jjudges are not given the task of running the Army. The responsibility for setting up channels through which [complaints of discrimination, favoritism, et cetera] can be considered and settled rests upon the Congress and upon the President of the United States and his subordinates. The military constitutes a specialized community governed by a separate discipline from that of the civilian. Orderly government requires that the judiciary be as scrupulous not to interfere with legitimate Army matters as the Army must be scrupulous not to intervene in judicial matters.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kosnik v. Peters
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.