Bishop v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
412 F.2d 1064 · 1969
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently February 1996 · most notably United States v. Lloyd (1970), Lockhart v. United States (1969)
64 federal appellate · 3 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 50 U.S.C. § 3811
Relies on Witmer v. United States · Oestereich v. Selective Service System Local Board No. 11 · Braunfeld v. Gibbons · Sicurella v. United States · Blalock 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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We do not suggest, of course, that sudden ‘Road-to-Damascus’ conversion is impossible or even unusual; however, when such a claim is asserted the Selective Service authorities are authorized to treat its sincerity as so sufficiently suspect that the suddenness of the conversion may be considered as one of those ‘objective facts before the Appeal Board * * * (which) cast doubt, on the sincerity of this claim.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Initially, we must reject Bishop’s assumption that were we to decide that incorrect standards were applied by his local board, reversal is required. That question was settled in Tomlinson v. United States, 216 F.2d 12 (9th Cir. 1954), cert. denied, 348 U.S. 970 , 75 S.Ct. 528 , 99 L.Ed. 755 (1955), wherein we explained that it is the very purpose of the appeal board to correct any local board errors by making its separate investigation of the registrant’s file and an independent classification decision. Accordingly, we limit our scrutiny to the standards applied by Bishop’s appeal board.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[w]hen a reviewing court is considering whether a board’s denial of a conscientious objector claim in a given case had basis in fact, the board’s action is entitled to the support of any inference of sham or insincerity on the part of the registrant which the board could have drawn validly and fairly from the record upon which it acted.””
1 later decision 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.