Packard v. Rollins’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district ·
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1552 · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jones v. Cunningham · United States v. Seeger · Peyton v. Rowe · United States & Interstate Commerce Commission v. Abilene & Southern Railway Co. · George W. Sohm v. Henry H. Fowler, Secretary of the Treasury
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.
“In view of the fact that each of the Army officers processing the application attested to the sincerity of the belief, and in view of the excerpts quoted above from the supporting documents, the Court holds that Packard's beliefs, though partially grounded on other than religious grounds, are primarily based on religious beliefs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.