United States v. Carson’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 834 · 10 U.S.C. § 858 · 10 U.S.C. § 859 · 10 U.S.C. § 890 · 10 U.S.C. § 891 · 10 U.S.C. § 893 · 10 U.S.C. § 918 · 10 U.S.C. § 922
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Parker v. Levy · Bouie v. City of Columbia
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appropriate conduct can only be discerned by examination of the relevant surrounding circumstances. For example, what is condoned in a professional athletes’ locker room may well be highly offensive in a house of worship. A certain amount of banter and even profanity in a military office is normally acceptable and, even when done in “poor taste,” will only rarely rise to the level of criminal misconduct.”
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.