Maier v. Orr’s Empirical Analysis
754 F.2d 973 · 1985
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Hohri v. United States (1986), James v. Caldera (1998)
20 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1295 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1361
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · United States v. Testan · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Orloff v. Willoughby · Gillespie v. United States Steel Corp.
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is equally settled that responsibility for determining who is fit or unfit to serve in the armed services is not a judicial province; and that courts cannot substitute their judgment for that of the military departments when reasonable minds could reach differing conclusions on the same evidence.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“civil action or claim against the United States, not exceeding $10,000 in amount, founded either upon ... any Act of Congress, or any regulation of an executive department....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Notwithstanding the imprecision of the complaint, we therefore look to the true nature of the action in determining the existence or not of jurisdiction.”
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.