Mindes v. Seaman’s Empirical Analysis
453 F.2d 197 · 1971
Citation profile
148 federal appellate · 40 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 355 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Sanders v. United States (1979), Sanders v. United States (1979)
148 federal appellate · 40 district · 5 state decisions
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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Bell v. Hood · Orloff v. Willoughby · Burns v. Wilson · Oestereich v. Selective Service System Local Board No. 11
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 355 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a court should not review internal military affairs in the absence of (a) an allegation of the deprivation of a constitutional right, or an allegation that the military has acted in violation of applicable statutes or its own regulations, and (b) exhaustion of available intraservice corrective measures.”
61 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“traditional judicial trepidation over interfering with the military establishment has been strongly manifested in an unwillingness to second-guess judgments requiring military expertise and in a reluctance to substitute court orders for discretionary military decisions.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(c)ourt-martial convictions alleged to involve errors of constitutional proportion have consistently been held to be subject to court review.”
2 later decisions 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.