Chilcott v. Orr’s Empirical Analysis
747 F.2d 29 · 1984
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Gately v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1993), Guerra v. Scruggs (1991)
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
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. § 1169 · 5 U.S.C. § 7501 (Civil Service Due Process Amendments)
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Arnett v. Kennedy · Dobbert v. Florida · Sampson v. Murray · Thorpe v. Housing Authority of Durham
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In view of the strong judicial policy against interfering with the internal affairs of the armed forces, we will apply the more stringent test of Sampson to applications for preliminary injunctions by military personnel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the prospect of a general discharge under honorable conditions is not an injury of sufficient magnitude to warrant an injunction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Guerra v. Scruggs“military discharge proceedings should be enjoined only in exceptional circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roe v. Shanahan
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.