Dick v. Tevlin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 3 district ·

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““An action to compel local board appointed under Selective Training and Service Act to permit plaintiff to change date of plaintiff’s birth as stated on his registration card and questionnaire, when considered as an action for a writ of mandamus, was required to be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction, since a federal District Court has no jurisdiction of original proceedings seeking relief by mandamus. * * * “An action for a writ of mandamus is not an ‘action at law’ or a ‘suit in equity’ under the Federal Judicial Code provisions respecting original jurisdiction of federal District Courts.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bullard v. Selective Service Local Board