United States v. Fallon’s Empirical Analysis
407 F.2d 621 · 1969
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2002 · most notably United States v. James (1969), United States v. Bowen (1969)
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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.
Relationships
Applies 50 U.S.C. § 3801
Relies on Bolling v. Sharpe · Henning Jacobson v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Allgeyer v. State of Louisiana · Selective Draft Law Cases · Holmes v. United States
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[A person] may be compelled, by force if need be, against his will and without regard to his personal wishes or his pecuniary interests, or even his religious or political convictions, to take his place in the ranks of the army of his country, and risk the chance of being shot down in its defense.””
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.