Captain Douglas Bruce McGaw v. Colonel A. Allen Farrow’s Empirical Analysis
472 F.2d 952 · 1973
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably National Treasury Employees Union v. Nixon (1974), City of Milwaukee v. Saxbe (1976)
21 federal appellate · 5 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. § 938 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1361
Relies on Rosado v. Wyman · Romero v. International Terminal Operating Co. · Cree v. Goldstein · Lynch v. Household Finance Corp. · McGee 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in suits against federal officers for alleged deprivations of constitutional rights, it is necessary to satisfy the amount-in-controversy requirement for federal jurisdiction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It follows, then, that in order for an action to qualify jurisdictionally under Section 1361, it must satisfy generally the traditional criteria for a mandamus proceeding. Those criteria have been often stated in proceedings which sought to qualify jurisdictionally under 1361. . [They have been summarized as requiring a showing]: “that the claim is clear and certain and the duty of the officer involved must be ministerial, plainly defined, and peremptory. The duty sought to be exercised must be a positive command and so plainly prescribed as to be free from doubt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“There seems little doubt that this conclusion denying jurisdiction under Section 1331 was sound. Though a few decisions have held contrariwise, a like conclusion has been reached in a majority of decisions of Circuit Courts of Appeals. Whatever differences there may have previously been in these decisions would appear, however, to have been set at rest by the recent decision in Lynch. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burnett v. Tolson
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.