371 F. Supp. 1392 - Roach v. Shields’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Feres v. United States · E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. v. Maloney · Bailey v. DeQuevedo · George S. Bailey v. Agusto G. Dequevedo and K. E. Van Buskirk · Bailey v. Buskirk
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is established that members of the United States military service are immune from recovery, in suits brought by fellow members of the military service, for service-connected injuries caused by their negligent acts, either ministerial or discretionary in nature, performed in the line of duty.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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