Ferrand v. Seamans’s Empirical Analysis
488 F.2d 1386 · 1973
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2009
9 federal appellate · 1 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 Welsh II v. United States · Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen v. Southern Railway Co. · United States v. Gearey · Hammond v. Lenfest · 293 F. Supp. 337 - United States v. St. Clair
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“persuades us that the conclusion that Ferrand lacked sincerity was at least in part motivated by the reluctance of the Air Force to lose an officer who had received the obvious benefits of the Berry Plan.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“would leave no room at all for in-service conscientious objection”
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.