Schmid v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
436 F.2d 987 · 1971
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2015 · most notably Crooker v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms (1981), Cass v. United States (1974)
12 federal appellate · 2 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. § 687 · 28 U.S.C. § 2516
Relies on United States v. American Trucking Associations · J. Gordon Turnbull, Inc. v. Commissioner · McLaren v. Fleischer · Lionberger v. United States
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . a member of a reserve component . . . who is released from active duty involuntarily . . . who has completed, immediately before release, at least five years of continuous active duty, is entitled to a readjustment payment computed by multiplying his years of active service . . . by two months' basic pay of the grade in which he is serving at the time of his release . . . For the purposes of this subsection- 9 (1) a period of active duty is continuous if it is not interrupted by a break in service of more than 30 days; 10 (2) a part of a year that is six months or more is counted as a whole year, and a part of a year that is less than six months is disregarded . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In resolving ambiguity, we must allow ourselves some recognition of the existence of sheer inadvertence in the legislative process”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A member of a reserve component who is involuntarily released from active duty after the enactment of this section and after having completed immediately prior to such release at least five years of continuous active duty, except for [a break] in service of not more than thirty days . . . is entitled to a lump-sum readjustment payment computed on the basis of one-half of one month's basic pay in the grade in which he is serving at the time of release from active duty for each year of active service ending at the close of the eighteenth year. For the purpose of computing the amount of readjustment payment (1) a part of a year that is six months or more is counted as a whole year . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.