United States v. Prince’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 50 U.S.C. § 3809 · 50 U.S.C. § 3811
Relies on Estep v. United States · United States v. Seeger · Dickinson v. United States · Witmer v. United States · Braunfeld v. Gibbons
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because neither the Local Board nor the Appeal Board gave any reason for the denial of defendant’s claim, the Court cannot determine with any degree of assurance whether there was a proper basis for the decision. In such a case, where no reason has been assigned for the rejection of a conscientious objector claim, and where there is no objective evidence which in itself would justify denial of the claim, the Court is not permitted to speculate as to whether there may have been a proper reason for the Board’s decision. Id. at 1166 .”
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.