Ehlert v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
748 federal appellate · 61 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,103 later decisions (37 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably Grayned v. City of Rockford (1972), Grayned v. City of Rockford (1972)
748 federal appellate · 61 district · 12 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
reviewedEhlert v. United States (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Udall v. Tallman · West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette · Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co. · Thorpe v. Housing Authority of Durham
Cited together with Welsh II v. United States · Mulloy v. United States · United States v. Seeger · Witmer v. United States · Udall v. Tallman
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 1,103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he classification of a registrant shall not be reopened after the local board has mailed to such registrant an Order to Report for Induction . . . unless the local board first specifically finds there has been a change in the registrant's status resulting from circumstances over which the registrant has no control. 32 C.F.R. Sec. 1625.2.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“deprived of a full and fair opportunity to present the merits of their conscientious objector claims for consideration under the same substantive criteria that must guide the Selective Service System.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * presentation to the local board of a claim that allegedly arose between mailing of a notice of induction and the scheduled induction date.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.