Weber v. Clifford’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 7 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We know that from top to bottom of the Army the complaint is often made, and sometimes with justification, that there is discrimination, favoritism or other objectionable handling of men. But judges are not given the task of running the Army. The responsibility for setting up channels through which such grievances can be considered and fairly settled rests upon the Congress and upon the President of the United States and his subordinates. The military constitutes a specialized community governed by a separate discipline from that of the civilian. Orderly government requires that the judiciary be as scrupulous not to interfere with legitimate Army matters as the Army must be scrupulous not to intervene in judicial matters. While the courts have found occasion to determine whether one has been lawfully inducted and is therefore within the jurisdiction of the Army and subject to its orders, we have found no case where this Court has assumed to revise duty orders as to one lawfully in the service.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Depino v. Officer · Lupo v. Laird

2. ““* * * Plaintiff has suggested that the complaint herein might be treated as a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, and relief granted thereunder. Without intimating that the relief requested might be granted in a habeas corpus proceeding, the Court notes that at the time the complaint herein was filed the proper district in which to file a habeas corpus petition must have been either in Oklahoma, where the orders were issued, or in California, where plaintiff was ordered to report. * * * (Page 961)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Crespo v. Perrin