United States v. Stepler’s Empirical Analysis
258 F.2d 310 · 1958
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 1972 · most notably United States v. Corliss (1960), Robertson v. United States (1969)
30 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on Dickinson v. United States · Bridges v. United States · Sicurella v. United States · Aetna Life Insurance v. Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. · Rathbun 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We think it very doubtful, under the circumstances of this case, whether the appeal board corrected this error. We do not suggest that the defendant’s file should contain expressions of opinion by the appeal board which are not required by law, but in the circumstances it is wholly uncertain whether the appeal board regarded the local board’s * * * [rationale] as not in accord with the law. * * * From this record we cannot tell whether the appeal board accepted the reasons given by the local board. Since the record is so unclear, we eannot say that the error of the local board was cured on appeal. 258 F.2d at 317 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Here, where it is impossible to determine on exactly which grounds the Appeal Board decided, the integrity of the Selective Service System demands, at least, that the Government not recommend illegal grounds.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““From this record we cannot tell whether the appeal board accepted the reasons given by the local board. Since the record is so unclear, we cannot say that the error of the local board was cured on appeal.””
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.