324 F. Supp. 736 - Calhoun v. Doster’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 32 U.S.C. § 709 (National Guard Technicians Act of 1968) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority · Keyishian v. Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY · King v. Smith · McNeese v. Board of Education for Community Unit School District 187 Cahokia
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defendant's military authority over the plaintiff is so inextricably intertwined with their civilian authority over him as to render any distinction between 'federal' and 'state' one of form, not substance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stinson v. Hornsby
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.