Alan I. Silberberg v. Commanding Officer, Col. Albert W. Willis’s Empirical Analysis

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20 federal appellate · 6 district ·

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

1. “1. Persons determined by a Military Department (whether or not such a determination was based on a recommendation by the Selective Service System) to meet the criteria for 1-0 classification will normally be discharged “For the convenience of the Government.” a. Conscientious objection will be specifically cited in the discharge document as the supporting reason when that is the sole reason for discharge, to avoid possible future confusion. b. Pending separation, the person will continue to be assigned duties providing the minimum practicable conflict with his professed beliefs and will be required to maintain the same standards of performance and behavior as other personnel assigned to his unit. 2. Persons (volunteers and inductees) with less than one hundred and eighty (180) days’ service who are determined to be bona fide conscientious objectors (1-0 classification) and whose request for separation is made early enough so that discharge will occur prior to completion of one hundred and eighty (180) days’ active duty will be separated (for the convenience of the Government by reason of conscientious objection) early enough to permit the remaining service in the civilian work program administered by Selective Service. In such cases, the Selective Service System will be promptly notified of the date of discharge from the military Service, the fact that the individual has not completed one hundred eighty (180) days’ active duty, and will be requested to induct the individuals ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bohnert v. Faulkner

2. ““In Class 1-0 shall be placed every registrant who would have been classified in Class 1-A but for the fact that he has been found, by reason of religious training and belief, to be conscientiously opposed to participation in war in any form and to be conscientiously opposed to participation in both combatant and noncombatant training and service in the armed forces.” [Emphasis added.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lewine v. Laird

3. ““The court held that the record contained no basis for questioning his sincerity, and ‘no substantial evidence supporting the military determination that petitioner was not, within the meaning of the Army’s own regulation, a conscientious objector,’ and that hence he could not be required to perform combatant service.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lewine v. Laird