Dickenson v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
245 F.2d 317 · 1957
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably United States v. Smaldone (1973), Watson v. Ol McCotter (1986)
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 McNally v. Hill · Burns v. Wilson · United States Ex Rel. Toth v. Quarles · Quirin Haupt Kerling Burger Heinck Thiel Neubauer United States Quirin v. Cox Usa 6 · In re Grimley
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Service in the military, whether by enlistment or otherwise, creates a status which is not and cannot be severed by breach of contract unfortified by a proper authoritative action. U. S. v. Grimley, 137 U.S. 147 , 11 S.Ct. 54 , 34 L.Ed. 636 ; see also Morrissey v. Perry, 137 U.S. 157 , 11 S.Ct. 57 , 34 L.Ed. 644 ; U. S. v. Williams, 302 U.S. 46 , 58 S.Ct. 81 , 82 L.Ed. 39 . At the time appellant was accused he had neither been discharged in accordance with 10 U.S.C.A. § 1580 (transferred to' 652a for future codification) nor had his military status been severed under other authority or by judicial action. He was a soldier, subject to the rules, discipline and jurisdiction of the Army and squarely within the provisions of Article 2 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The following persons are subject to this chapter: (1) Members of a regular component of the armed forces, including those awaiting discharge after expiration of their terms of enlistment; .”
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.