Simmons v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently March 2009
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
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1552
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Morrissey v. Brewer · Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroy · Sampson v. Murray · Orloff v. Willoughby
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unsuitability. Separation with an Honorable or a General discharge, as warranted by the member’s military record, when it has been determined that an individual is unsuitable for further military service because of: (2) Alcohol abuse. Failure, through inability or refusal, to participate in, cooperate in, or complete an alcohol abuse treatment and rehabilitation program.”
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.