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421 F.2d 1162 · 1970

Citation profile

40
cited by 40 later decisions
August 1973
most recently cited

30 federal appellate · 4 district ·

Relationships

Relies on Oestereich v. Selective Service System Local Board No. 11 · Gutknecht v. United States · Breen v. Selective Service Local Board No. 16 · United States v. Gutknecht

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

  1. “litigious delay in the process of raising an army.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “The Court's opinion here, as in Oestereich v. Selective Service [System Local] Bd., 393 U.S. 233 [89 S.Ct. 414, 21 L.Ed.2d 402] (1968), appears to make the availability of pre-induction review turn on the lawfulness of the draft board's action or, to put in another way, on the certainty with which the reviewing court can determine that the registrant would prevail on the merits if there were such judicial review of his classification.”
    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.