Williams v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
762 F.2d 357 · 1985
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Watkins v. United States Army (1989), Williams v. Secretary of the Navy (1986)
16 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Mindes v. Seaman · Hodges v. Callaway · Penagaricano v. Llenza · Thornton v. Coffey · Bluth v. Laird
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The nature and strength of the plaintiff’s challenge to the military determination; (2) the potential injury to the plaintiff if review is refused; (3) the type and degree of anticipated interference with the military function; and (4) the extent to which the exercise of military expertise or discretion is involved.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] court should not review internal military affairs in the absence of (a) an allegation of the deprivation of a constitutional right, or an allegation that the military has acted in violation of applicable statutes or its own regulations, and (b) exhaustion of available intraservice measures.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Roe v. Shanahan · Guerra v. Scruggs“to second-guess judgments requiring military expertise”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.