Bluth v. Laird’s Empirical Analysis
435 F.2d 1065 · 1970
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Mindes v. Seaman (1971), Dilley v. Alexander (1979)
17 federal appellate · 6 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 Orloff v. Willoughby · Killian v. United States · Eaton v. Hobson · Federal Trade Commission v. Textile & Apparel Group · National Labor Relations Board v. Garwin Corp.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen the sovereign has established rules to govern its own conduct it will be held to the self-imposed limitations on its own authority, departure from which denies procedural due process of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We are fully mindful of the restricted-role of the judiciary with respect to the internal affairs of the Army as exemplified by such decisions as Orloff v. Willoughby [ 345 U.S. 83 , 73 S.Ct. 534 , 97 L.Ed. 842 (1953)]; Reaves v. Ainsworth, 219 U.S. 296 , 31 S.Ct. 230 , 55 L.Ed. 225 (1911); Winters v. United States, 412 F.2d 140 (9 Cir. 1969), cert. den., 396 U.S. 920 , 90 S.Ct. 248 , 24 L.Ed.2d 200 (1969); Byrne v. Resor, 412 F.2d 774 (3 Cir. 1969); United States ex rel. Schonbrun v. Commanding Officer, 403 F.2d 371 (2 Cir. 1968), cert. den., 394 U.S. 929 , 89 S.Ct. 1195 , 22 L.Ed.2d 460 (1969); Noyd v. McNamara, 378 F.2d 538 (10 Cir. 1967), cert. den., 389 U.S. 1022 , 88 S.Ct. 593 , 19 L.Ed.2d 667 (1967); Luftig v. McNamara, 126 U.S.App.D.C. 4 , 373 F.2d 664 (1967), cert. den., 387 U.S. 945 , 87 S.Ct. 2078 , 18 L.Ed.2d 1332 (1967); Payson v. Franke, 108 U.S.App.D.C. 368 , 282 F.2d 851 (1960), cert. den. sub nom. Robinson v. Franke, 365 U.S. 815 , 81 S.Ct. 696 , 5 L.Ed.2d 694 (1961). It is, as characterized in Feliciano v. Laird, 426 F.2d 424, 427 (2 Cir. 1970), “extraordinarily limited.””
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.