Dougherty v. Hidalgo’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 2009
1 district · 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. § 2105 · 10 U.S.C. § 6959 · 10 U.S.C. § 6962
Relies on Dunlop v. Bachowski · Matlovich v. Secretary of the Air Force · Fay v. American Can Company and United Steelworkers of America, Afl-Cio · 461 F. Supp. 1085 - Hickey v. Commandant of the Fourth Naval District · Hickey v. Commandant of the Fourth Naval District
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.
“A midshipman upon who a report is made [that he possesses insufficient aptitude to become a commissioned officer] ... shall be given an opportunity to examine the report and submit a written statement thereon. If the Secretary believes, on the basis of the report and statement, that the determination of the Superintendent or of the Academic Board is reasonable and well founded, he may discharge the midshipman from the Naval Academy and from the naval service.”
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.