Steffan v. Cheney’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2018
9 federal appellate · 6 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 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2201
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization · Gladstone, Realtors v. Village of Bellwood · Bender v. Williamsport Area School 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“repeatedly warned [him] that the negative aura surrounding an involuntary discharge would adversely affect [him] ... He added that, if I were discharged, my military discharge certificate would include a code that meant 'homosexual' and that if I chose to resign, this code would be omitted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Officers who admit that they fit within the Navy's regulatory definition of homosexual are inevitably discharged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Steffan v. Perry“Midshipman Steffan be separated from the Naval Academy due to insufficient aptitude for commissioned service.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Steffan v. Perry
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.