Kennedy v. Maginnis’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 2671 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on Feres v. United States · United States v. Brown · Brooks v. United States · E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. v. Maloney · George S. Bailey v. Agusto G. Dequevedo and K. E. Van 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[t]he basis of Feres, Van Buskirk and their progeny was that the danger of potential litigation by servicemen either against the Government or against fellow members of the armed forces would undermine the foundations of military discipline and possibly thwart the orderly functioning of the armed services. That same menace exists regardless of whether a serviceman’s suit is brought immediately, or whether its initiation is delayed until the potential plaintiff is discharged.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.