Silverthorne v. Laird’s Empirical Analysis
460 F.2d 1175 · 1972
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Avoyelles Sportsmen's League, Inc. v. Marsh (1983), Hodges v. Callaway (1974)
30 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
Relies on William Marbury v. James Madison · Estep v. United States · United States v. Seeger · Welsh II v. United States · Witmer 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“full authority to take any steps during the pendency of the appeal that will assist the court of appeals in the determination of the appeal”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. once the Army promulgates regulations, it is bound to follow them. . . . [I]t has been repeatedly recognized that the Army cannot apply its rules in an arbitrary manner and that when it does so the courts have power to review.”
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.