Beard v. Stahr’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
71 federal appellate · 12 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 148 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1984 · most notably Osborn v. United States (1967), George W. Sohm v. Henry H. Fowler, Secretary of the Treasury (1966)
71 federal appellate · 12 district · 7 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
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 3794
Relies on Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroy · Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath · Greene v. McElroy · Wieman v. Updegraff · Aircraft & Diesel Equipment Corp. v. Hirsch
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 148 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The appellant will not be removed from the active list of the Regular Army unless the Secretary of the Army exercises the discretionary authority to remove him conferred by 10 U.S.C. § 3794 . The Secretary has not stated that he will so exercise his discretion as to remove appellant. If the Secretary does not remove the appellant it will be unnecessary to pass on the constitutional objections which have been urged.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Faceless informers are often effective if they need not take the stand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Rose v. Haskins
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.