Knehans v. Callaway’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 1998
5 federal appellate · 10 district ·
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.
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1552 · 10 U.S.C. § 3303
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Harmon v. Brucker · Mindes v. Seaman · Hodges v. Callaway
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“could rationally have concluded that their omission did not result in (appellant's) nonpromotion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a vital part of the promotion apparatus established by Congress,”
1 later decision 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.