Morse v. Boswell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 federal appellate · 6 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “notwithstanding any other provision of law.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 290 F. Supp. 275 - Goldstein v. Clifford · Fox v. Brown

2. “(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, until June 30, 1968, the President may order to active duty any member of the Ready Reserve of an armed force who— (1) is not assigned to, or participating satisfactorily in, a unit in the Selected Reserve, and (2) has not fulfilled his statutory reserve obligation, and (3) has not served on active duty or active duty for training for a total of twenty-four months. (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, until June 30, 1968, the President may order to active duty any member of the Ready Reserve of an armed force who had become a member of a reserve component prior to July 1, 1966; and who (1) has not served on active duty or active duty for training for a period of one hundred and twenty days or more, and (2) has not fulfilled his statutory reserve military obligation. (c) A member ordered to active duty under this section may be required to serve on active duty until his total service on active duty or active duty for training equals twenty-four months. If the enlistment or period of military service of a member of the Ready Reserve ordered to active duty under subsections (a) or (b) of this section would expire before he has served the required period of active duty prescribed herein, his enlistment or period of military service may be extended until that service on active duty has been completed. (d) In order to achieve fair treatment as between members in the Ready Reserve who are being considered for active dut”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Johnson v. Powell · 290 F. Supp. 338 - Linsalata v. Clifford

3. ““The purpose of the reserve components is to provide trained units and qualified persons available for active duty in the armed forces, in time of war or national emergency and at such other times as the national security requires, to fill the needs of the armed forces whenever, during, and after the period needed to procure and train additional units and qualified persons to achieve the planned mobilization, more units and persons are needed than are in the regular components”, (emphasis supplied).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 290 F. Supp. 659 - Sullivan v. Cushman · 290 F. Supp. 275 - Goldstein v. Clifford