John E. Day, Jr. v. Charles E. Wilson, Secretary of Defense’s Empirical Analysis
247 F.2d 60 · 1957
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2009
12 federal appellate · 5 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 Land US v. Dollar · Burns v. Wilson · Johnson v. Eisentrager · In re Grimley · Yamashita Yamashita v. Styer US
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Sec. 16. Jurisdiction of all cases pending or determined in the District Court for the Territory of Alaska not trans; ferred to the United States District Court for the District of Alaska shall devolve upon and be exercised by the courts of original jurisdiction created by said State, which shall be deemed to be the successor of the District Court for the Territory of Alaska with respect to cases not so transferred and, as such, shall take and retain custody of all records, dockets, journals, and files of such court pertaining to such cases. The files and papers in all cases so transferred to the United States district court, together with a transcript of all book entries to complete the record in such particular cases so transferred, shall be in like manner transferred to said district court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Application of House
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.