Goodwin v. Laird’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen v. Southern Railway Co. · United States v. Haughton · United States v. Gearey · Terlikowski v. United States · United States v. Washington
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Crystallization' reflects a very subtle psychological process. For some persons just reading and discussing is enough to cause them to make the mental and emotional commitment to oppose participation in war. Other persons, like petitioner, need to go through the actual experience of combat training, the experience of learning to handle and to use weapons of destruction before their beliefs crystallize into commitment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The fact that petitioner put off his decision until a ‘late hour’ is no basis for a finding of insincerity”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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