Foster v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1491 · 50 U.S.C. § 3935 (Servicemembers Civil Relief Act)
Relies on United States v. Testan · O’Callahan v. Parker, Warden · Wood v. Strickland · Brundage v. United States · Gruca v. United States Steel Corp.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiffs were bound to know that the statute in these cases required representation of an “appropriate number” of reservists and were bound to take action to ascertain whether the representation was appropriate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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