Tanaka’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 1990
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. § 8303
Relies on Bullock v. United States · Smith v. Missouri · 200 Ct. Cl. 626 - Dorl v. United States · Boyd 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Ratings and promotions are discretionary matters. We must not interfere with these internal affairs of the military unless there is a showing of clear error, abuse of discretion, or arbitrary and capricious action.” Boyd v. United States, 207 Ct.Cl. 1 , cert. denied, 424 U.S. 911 , 96 S.Ct. 1106 , 47 L.Ed.2d 314 (1975); Dorl v. United States, 200 Ct.Cl. 626 , cert. denied, 414 U.S. 1032 , 94 S.Ct. 461 , 38 L.Ed.2d 323 (1973). * * * [Emphasis supplied.]”
2 later decisions 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.