Kovach v. Middendorf’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 6015 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 50 U.S.C. § 3801
Relies on Dandridge v. Williams · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc.
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Constitution gives the Congress broad power to provide for the national defense. In so critical an area, the Congress has a compelling state interest on which to justify the clas-sification_ In the absence of qualifications or limitations found in the Constitution or in applicable principles of international law (there are none in the instant case) the war power of Congress knows no bounds.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Steffan v. Cheney
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.