Reid v. Covert’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably Reid v. Covert (1957), Examining Bd. of Engineers, Architects and Surveyors v. Flores De Otero (1976)
55 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia District Court)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1252
Relies on United States Ex Rel. Toth v. Quarles · Fleming v. Rhodes · Kinsella v. Krueger · Naim v. Naim
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he military courts have recognized rehearings to be but continuations of the original proceedings ... and the legislative history of Article 63 of the Code ... bears out the fact that they were so intended by Congress.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“officer or employee of the United States”
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.