Abbott v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
287 F.2d 573 · 1961
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 1992
2 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
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1331 · 10 U.S.C. § 3001
Relies on Lake County v. Rollins · United States v. Haynes · 102 F. Supp. 575 - Danielson v. United States · Berry 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The status of retirement for military personnel and the right to and the amount of retired and retirement pay are created and controlled by statute. If there is no statutory authori zation for payment then the claimant is not entitled to any payment as a matter of right. * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Therefore, it is our determination that the term “Army” as used in paragraph 4, section 15, of the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942, supra, pertains only to regular officers and not to reserve officers. * * * [Emphasis supplied.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.