United States v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

63 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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

1. ““(a) When a call is.placed without designation of age group or groups, each local board, upon receiving a Notice of Call on Local Board (SSS Form No. 201) from the State Director of Selective Service (1) for a specified number of men to be delivered for induction * * * shall select and order to report for induction the number of men required to fill the call from its registrants who have been classified in Class I-A and Class I-A-0 and have been found acceptable for service in the Armed Forces and to whom the local board has mailed a Statement of Acceptability (DD Form No. 62) at least 21 days before the date fixed for induction : * * * Such registrants, including those in a medical, dental, or allied specialist category, shall be selected and ordered to report for induction in the following order: “(1) Delinquents who have attained the age of 19 years in the order of their dates of birth with the oldest being selected first. “(2) Volunteers who have not attained the age of 26 years in the sequence in which they have volunteered for induction. “(3) Nonvolunteers who have attained the age of 19 years and have no [sic] attained the age of 26 years and who (A) do not have a wife with whom they maintain a bona fide family rela tionship in their homes, in the order of their dates of birth with the oldest being selected first, or (B) have a wife whom they married after the effective date of this amended subparagraph and with whom they maintain a bona fide family relationship in the”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Schutz v. United States

2. ““Manifestly, the order of call affects registrants’ substantial rights. Indeed Congress has regarded the matter as so vital to the fairness of the operation of the Selective Service System that it enacted legislation prohibiting an administrative change of the present method of determining the relative order of induction within the specified age groups. 50 U.S.C.App. § 455(a) (2). And we hold that a strict compliance is essential to the validity of an Order to Report for Induction.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Schutz v. United States

3. ““the question called for testimony of the witness concerning the contents of writings which were part of the older registrants’ selective service files. The best evidence of such writings was of course the writings themselves . . ..” 416 F.2d at 205 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. King