United States v. Russo’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably United States v. McCarthy (1976), Dettinger v. United States (1979)
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. § 884
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] government agency must abide by its own rules and regulations where the underlying purpose of such regulation is the protection of personal liberties or interests.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Enlistment is a contract, but it is one of those contracts which changes the status, and where that is changed, no breach of the contract destroys the new status or relieves from the obligations which its existence imposes.”
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.