United States v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
415 F.2d 502 · 1969
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently August 1983 · most notably Tennessee Consolidated Coal Co. v. United Mine Workers of America (1969), United States v. Cabbage (1970)
42 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
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Hoffa v. United States · McKart v. United States · Estep v. United States · United States v. Seeger
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We consider also that the action of * * * [the local selective service board] * * * cannot be here challenged on the ground of the lack of proper . residential qualifications of some of its members. It was in all events a de facto board whose action is not subject to this collateral attack.” United States v. Brooks, 415 F.2d 502, 505 (6th Cir. 1969), cert. den. 397 U.S. 969 , 90 S.Ct. 1003 , 25 L.Ed.2d 263 (1970).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The members of local boards shall be citizens of the United States who shall be residents of a county in which their local board has jurisdiction and who shall also, if at all practicable, be residents of the area in which their local board has jurisdiction.” (Emphasis supplied).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(a) In Class II-S shall be placed any registrant who has requested such deferment and who is satisfactorily pursuing a full-time course of instruction at a college, university, or similar institution of learning, such deferment to continue until such registrant completes the requirement for his baccalaureate degree, fails to pursue satisfactorily a full-time course of instruction, or attains the twenty-fourth anniversary of the date of his birth, whichever occurs first. “(b) In determining eligibility for deferment in Class II-S, a student’s ‘academic year’ shall include the 12-month period following the beginning of his course of study. “(c) A student shall be deemed to be ‘satisfactorily pursuing a full-time course of instruction’ when, during his academic year, he has earned, as a minimum, credits toward his degree which, when added to any credits earned during prior academic years, represent a proportion which the number of academic years completed bears to the normal number of years established by the school to obtain such degree. For example, a student pursuing a four-year course should have earned 25% of the credits required for his baccalaureate degree at the end of his first academic year, 50% at the end of his second academic year, and 75% at the end of his third academic year. “(d) It shall be the registrant’s duty to provide the local board each year with evidence that he is satisfactorily pursuing a full-time course of instruction at a college, university, or si”
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.