Cherry v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
640 F.2d 1184 · 1980
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Applies 25 U.S.C. § 348 · 28 U.S.C. § 1491 · 28 U.S.C. § 2509 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680 · 37 U.S.C. § 552 · 37 U.S.C. § 553
Relies on United States v. Testan · Feres v. United States · United States v. Mitchell · Blanchette v. Connecticut General Insurance Corporations · Lynch v. United States
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“granting each and every request for funds made by Mrs. Cherry. . . . . . . [W]e hold that at some point in time the Air Force should have undertaken an investigation of the manner in which funds were expended and that Colonel Cherry is entitled to funds disbursed after that point, if further examination of the facts indicates that disbursements to Mrs. Cherry were made on the basis of false claims by her or were for nonemergency purposes or not warranted by the particular circumstances. Possibly the Air Force would have learned thus of earlier misstatements and been able to offset claims by it for refunds against current allotments.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Congress desired and needed a flexible system to allow provision for dependents whose supporting members were separated from their families not only geographically, but from any communication that would enable participation in the disbursement of their pay. Administrative discretion is needed to adjust to changing circumstances which are bound to occur over such a forced separation of many years.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he Secretary concerned, or his designee, may, when he considers it in the interest of the member, his dependents, or the United States, direct the initiation, continuance, discontinuance, increase, decrease, suspension, or resumption of payments of allotments from the pay and allowances of a member entitled to pay and allowances under section 552 of this title.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.