Baldauf v. Nitze’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 133 · 10 U.S.C. § 3201 · 10 U.S.C. § 5031 · 10 U.S.C. § 5081 · 10 U.S.C. § 5401 · 10 U.S.C. § 6321 · 10 U.S.C. § 885 · 3 U.S.C. § 301
Relies on Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroy · Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer · United States v. Macintosh · Robertson v. Baldwin · Boske v. Comingore
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Officers serve at the pleasure of the President and no terminal dates are established for their commissions. The Secretary of the Navy, by virtue of his authority to act for the President, establishes such criteria for the voluntary resignation of an officer’s commission with release from active duty as are deemed necessary for the maintenance of a sound officer corps.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[I]nvoluntary servitude has never been construed as pertaining to the military service. That term in the Thirteenth Amendment includes only those forms of labor such as peonage.””
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.