King v. Moseley’s Empirical Analysis
430 F.2d 732 · 1970
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2024 · most notably Relford v. Commandant, U. S. Disciplinary Barracks (1971), Watson v. Ol McCotter (1986)
12 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 Dickey v. Florida · Burns v. Wilson · O'Callahan v. Parker · Kinsella v. United States Ex Rel. Singleton · Carter v. McClaughry
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Burns v. Wilson, . . . the Court enunciated the rule that the limited function of the civil courts in reviewing a military conviction on a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, in addition to the jurisdictional issues under the prior rule, is to determine whether the military gave fair consideration to each of the petitioner's constitutional claims.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The right of trial by jury guaranteed by the 6th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is not applicable in a trial by military court-martial. Hence, decisions respecting the right to trial by one's peers in civil courts are inapplicable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dodson v. Zelez
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.