United States v. Heriot’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2008
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. § 859 · 10 U.S.C. § 892
Relies on United States v. Smart · United States v. Tippit · United States v. Kastner · United States v. McGowan · United States v. Heriot
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Moreover, we wish to encourage candor on the part of court members questioned during voir dire; and so we are reluctant to hold that a prospective member who is’not evasive and admits to harboring an opinion that many others would share — such as that a convicted drug dealer should not remain a noncommissioned officer or should be separated from the armed service — must automatically be excluded if challenged for cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.