Alexander v. Fioto’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2000 · most notably Hardwick v. Bowers (1985), Cantwell v. County of San Mateo (1980)
13 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
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1253 · 28 U.S.C. § 1361
Relies on Philbrook v. Glodgett · 409 F. Supp. 831 - Fioto v. United States Department of the Army
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(c) No person who, before August 16, 1945, was a Reserve of an armed force, ... is eligible for retired pay under this chapter, unless he performed active duty after April 5, 1917, and before November 12, 1918, or after September 8, 1940, and before January 1, 1947, or unless he performed active duty (other than for training) after June 26, 1950, and before July 28,1953.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bock“to provide an inducement to qualified personnel to remain active in the Reserves in order to maintain a cadre of trained soldiers for use in active duty if the need should arise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the product of a deliberate and rational choice”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Richardson v. Simon
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.