Brown v. Reaves’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 50 U.S.C. § 3806
Relies on United States v. Seeger · Witmer v. United States · People of State of Illinois McCollum v. Board of Education of School Dist No 71 Champaign County Ill · United States v. Taylor · United States v. Seeger
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that petitioner never claimed to be a conscientious objector until after his induction and after he became stationed at Ft. Polk, Louisiana. We find this as a fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Resor
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.