Stephens v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
358 F.2d 951 · 1966
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably Skinner v. United States (1979), Skinner v. United States (1979)
4 federal appellate · 3 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.
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1201 · 10 U.S.C. § 1204
Relies on Allen v. Williamson · McKinney v. Missouri - Kansas - Texas Railroad · Wales v. United States · 153 Ct. Cl. 557 - Furlong v. United States
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court has held on many occasions that it has no power to review the decisions of the Secretary of one of the military departments or his authorized representatives in such a case unless the petitioner shows by cogent and clearly convincing evidence that such determinations are arbitrary, capricious, or not supported by substantial evidence. * * * [Stephens v. United States, 174 Ct. Cl. 365, 371-72 , 358 F. 2d 951, 954 (1966).]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.