Schwartz v. Covington’s Empirical Analysis
341 F.2d 537 · 1965
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 12 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1994 · most notably Sampson v. Murray (1974), Lathan v. Volpe (1971)
47 federal appellate · 12 district · 2 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1552 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 5 U.S.C. § 1009
Relies on Harmon v. Brucker · United States Hirshberg v. Cooke
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Irrespective of the government's recent assurance that the appellee would be reinstated if he prevails upon review of his discharge, the injury and the stigma attached to an undesirable discharge are clear.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“pending exhaustion of military remedies and judicial review by a United States District Court, during which time appellee retain his present rank and status.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Murray v. Kunzig
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.