Helwick v. Laird’s Empirical Analysis
438 F.2d 959 · 1971
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently September 2005 · most notably United States v. Stetter (1971), Silverthorne v. Laird (1972)
51 federal appellate · 9 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 United States v. Seeger · Dickinson v. United States · Welsh II v. United States · Witmer v. United States · Cox 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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . the disbelief of Selective Service officials will not justify the rejection of a claim for conscientious objector status unless there is some affirmative evidence to support the ■rejection of the claimed exemption or there is something in the record which substantially (emphasis added) blurs the picture painted by the registrant and thus casts doubt on his sincerity, Batterton v. United States, 8 Cir., 1958, 260 F.2d 233 .””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a verbalism without any real meaning * * *.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Therefore in this case — indeed, as in all conscientious objector cases— the threshold question for review is the sincerity of the claimant in objecting, on religious grounds, to participation in war in any form. Sincerity is of course a subjective question.” (Citing cases) (Emphasis supplied.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kurtz v. Laird · O'Hara v. Laird
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.