Easley v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
209 F.2d 483 · 1953
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently October 1990 · most notably Dodson v. Zelez (1990), Kennedy v. Commandant, United States Disciplinary Barracks (1967)
41 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. § 1471 · 10 U.S.C. § 1521 · 50 U.S.C. § 551
Relies on Burns v. Wilson · Johnson v. Eisentrager · Quirin Haupt Kerling Burger Heinck Thiel Neubauer United States Quirin v. Cox Usa 6 · Ex Parte Milligan · Gusik v. Schilder
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“From early times, our courts have recognized that the Constitution confers upon Congress, and not the courts, the power to provide for the trial and disposition of offenses committed by those in the armed forces and that the civil courts are limited to a consideration of the jurisdiction of courts-martial and that they have no supervisory or correcting power over their decisions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * In other words, as we understand the Burns decision, it does no more than hold that a military court must consider questions relating to the guarantees afforded an accused by the Constitution and when this is done, the civil courts will not review its action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Suttles v. Davis
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.