Ballenger v. Marsh’s Empirical Analysis
708 F.2d 349 · 1983
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2003 · most notably Martinez v. United States (2003), Dickson v. Secretary of Defense (1995)
12 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. § 1552 · 10 U.S.C. § 1553 · 28 U.S.C. § 1491 · 28 U.S.C. § 2401
Relies on Hodges v. Callaway · Matlovich v. Secretary of the Air Force · Neal v. Secretary of Navy · Hoffburg v. Alexander · Baxter v. Claytor
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every civil action commenced against the U.S. shall be barred unless the complaint is filed within six years after the right of action first accrues.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Board decisions denying 'corrective' action are reviewable by federal courts”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Guerrero v. Stone
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.