Armstrong v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

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

1. “(a) In the case of any person who is inducted into the Armed Forces of the United States under the Military Selective Service Act (or under any prior or subsequent corresponding law) for training and service and who leaves a position (other than a temporary position) in the employ of any employer in order to perform such training and service, and (1) receives a certificate described in section 9(a) of the Military Selective Service Act (relating to the satisfactory completion of military service), and (2) makes application for reemployment within ninety days after such person is relieved from such training and service or from hospitalization continuing after discharge for a period of not more than one year—... (B) if such position was in the employ of a State, or political subdivision thereof, or a private employer, such person shall— (i) if still qualified to perform the duties of such position, be restored by such employer or his successor in interest to such position or to a position of like seniority, status, and pay: ... (b)(2) It is hereby declared to be the sense of the Congress that any person who is restored to or employed in a position in accordance with the provisions of clause (A) or (B) of subsection (a) of this section should be so restored or remployed in such manner as to give such person such status in his employment as he would have enjoyed if such person had continued in such employment continuously from the time of such person’s entering the Armed Forces u”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brown v. Consolidated Rail Corp.

2. “Every action to recover money, which is founded upon ... any contract ... shall be brought within the following number of years next after the right to bring the same shall have accrued, that is to say: ... if it be ... upon a contract in writing, signed by the party to be charged thereby, or by his agent, but not under seal, within ten years; ...”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 178 W. Va. 53 - Maynard v. Board of Educ. of Wayne County