United States v. Bendik’s Empirical Analysis
220 F.2d 249 · 1955
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 1977 · most notably United States v. Jakobson (1963), Credit Industrial Corporation Gould Levin (1966)
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
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
Relies on Estep v. United States · Reynolds v. States · Chas Steward Mach Co v. Davis · Falbovs v. United States · United States v. Macintosh
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * the sincerity of his conscientious scruples against service was immaterial, since admittedly they were not founded on belief in a Supreme Being, a requirement as a ground for deferment under the Act. 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 456 (j). Berman v. United States, 9 Cir., 156 F.2d 377 , certiorari denied 329 U.S. 795 , 67 S.Ct. 480 , 91 L.Ed. 680 . * * *" (220 F.2d p. 252)”
1 later decision 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.