O'Callahan v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
318 federal appellate · 55 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,212 later decisions (49 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably Payne v. Tennessee (1991), United States v. Raddatz (1980)
318 federal appellate · 55 district · 28 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. A case is still cited after being overruled — to note the reversal, distinguish it, or in dissent. 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
reviewedThompson v. Willingham (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 825 · 10 U.S.C. § 880 · 10 U.S.C. § 918 · 10 U.S.C. § 930 · 10 U.S.C. § 934 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331
Relies on Dombrowski v. Pfister · O’Callahan v. Parker, Warden · Burns v. Wilson · Reid v. Covert · United Gas Improvement Co. v. Continental Oil Co.
Cited together with Relford v. Commandant, U. S. Disciplinary Barracks · Schlesinger v. Councilman · United States Ex Rel. Toth v. Quarles · Gosa v. Mayden · Burns v. Wilson
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 1,212 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) The essential and obvious interest of the military in the security of persons and of property on the military enclave. * * * “(b) The responsibility of the military commander for maintenance of order in his command and his authority to maintain that order. * * * “(c) The impact and adverse effect that a crime committed against a person or property on a military base, thus violating the base’s very security, has upon morale, discipline, reputation and integrity of the base itself, upon its personnel and upon the military operation and the military mission. “(d) The conviction that Article I, § 8, Clause 14, vesting in the Congress the power ‘To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces,’ means, in appropriate areas beyond the purely military offense, more than the mere power to arrest a serviceman-offender and turn him over to the civil authorities. The term ‘Regulation’ itself implies, for those appropriate cases, the power to try and to punish. “(e) The distinct possibility that civil courts, particularly non federal courts, will have less than complete interest, concern, and capacity for all the cases that vindicate the military’s disciplinary problems within its own community. * * * “(f) The very positive implication in O’Callahan itself, arising from its emphasis on the absence of service-connected elements there, that the presence of factors such as geographical and military relationships have important contrary significance. “(g) The”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We have concluded that the crime to be under military jurisdiction must be service connected. . . .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'the least possible power adequate to the end proposed.”
4 later decisions 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.