United States v. Carson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The President is also authorized, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to provide for the deferment from training and service in the Armed Forces [or from training in the National Security Training Corps] (1) of any or all categories of persons in a status with respect to persons (other than wives alone, except in cases of extreme hardship) dependent upon them for support which renders their deferment advisable, and (2) of any or all categories of those persons found to be physically, mentally, or morally deficient or defective. * * * [T]he President is also authorized, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to provide for the deferment from training and service in the Armed Forces [or training in the National Security Training Corps] of any or all categories of persons who have children, or wives and children, with whom they maintain a bona fide family relationship in their homes. No deferment from such training and service in the Armed Forces [or training in the National Security Training Corps] shall be made in the case of any individual except upon the basis of the status of such individual.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Eisdorfer