Peterson v. Goodwin’s Empirical Analysis
512 F.2d 479 · 1975
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 1991
1 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 934
Relies on Parker v. Levy · O'Callahan v. Parker · Relford v. Commandant, U. S. Disciplinary Barracks · Cole v. Laird
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Heroin addiction among servicemen at an Air Force base poses a unique threat to the operation of the base. Unless the airmen can respond quickly to orders and adequately operate the complicated weapons and material subject to their use, the base will be unable to fulfil its vital functions in the defense of our Nation. ****** Heroin addiction presents a serious threat to the good order and discipline of our armed forces. A court-martial has power to deal with that threat. We hold that the sale of heroin by one airman to another is sufficiently related to the functioning of the armed forces for a court-martial to acquire jurisdiction over the offense and the offenders, notwithstanding the attenuating circumstances that at the time of sale both airmen were off base, off duty, and out of uniform.”
5 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.