McElroy v. United States Ex Rel. Guagliardo’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
85 federal appellate · 27 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 238 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably Parker v. Levy (1974), Laird v. Tatum (1972)
85 federal appellate · 27 district · 3 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States of America Ex Rel. Dominic Guagliardo v. Neil H. McElroy Secretary of Defense, Department of Defense (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 802
Relies on Orloff v. Willoughby · Reid v. Covert · United States Ex Rel. Toth v. Quarles · Ex Parte Milligan · Dorchy v. State of Kansas
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 238 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the least possible power adequate to the end proposed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wickham v. Hall
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.