West v. Chafee’s Empirical Analysis

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5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The district court adopted the latter approach (that the record discloses no basis in fact supporting the Navy decision) and concluded that, because West had made an adequate showing of community essentiality and the record contained no evidence in support of the Navy's conclusion that its need for West was paramount, West was entitled to the exemption.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Karlin v. Reed

2. “This is the evidence which the Army authorities had before them in considering Roth's appeal. The district court may review action taken by military authorities to insure that it is not violative of applicable regulations . . . or to insure that their decision is not so arbitrary and irrational that it cannot stand . . . .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Karlin v. Reed

3. “Measuring military need is peculiarly a military matter, the kind of undertaking the courts should be astute to leave to the military.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Karlin v. Reed