Craycroft v. Ferrall’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

52 federal appellate · 16 district · 3 state decisions

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

1. ““[Jjudges are not given the task of running the Army. The responsibility for setting up channels through which * * * grievances can be considered and fairly settled rests upon the Congress and upon the President of the United States and his subordinates. The military constitutes a specialized community governed by a separate discipline from that of the civilian. Orderly government requires that the judiciary be as scrupulous not to interfere with legitimate Army matters as the Army must be scrupulous not to intervene in judicial matters.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Depino v. Officer · 300 F. Supp. 920 - Laxer v. Cushman

2. ““(1) likelihood that the subject person would prevail on the merits of an appeal from the administrative process to the court; “(2) irreparable damage to the subject person if a stay is not ordered ; “(3) no irreparable damage to the other parties or the public from a stay order.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Benson v. Holloway · Meaker v. Schlesinger

3. “Among these purposes, all of which generally point to the efficient functioning of our federal legal system, are the following: (1) to avoid excessive encroachment by the judiciary into areas designated by the Constitution or Congress to be within the fundamental responsibility of the legislative or executive branches of the federal government; (2) to avoid interference with the orderly functioning of the administrative process; (3) to discourage a party from `shopping' for a favorable forum; (4) to relieve the courts of the necessity of deciding constitutional questions or interpreting statutes in matters of public import when recourse to administrative channels might supply relief or moot the controversy; [footnote omitted] (5) to require administrative completion of a record involving special areas of administrative expertise or * * * to avoid advisory opinions and to conserve judicial energies in cases wherein, if action taken at a lower level of the administrative hierarchy is affirmed, the aggrieved party presumably could yet hope for relief by pursuing his administrative appeals. [citation omitted]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Beaty v. Kenan