Smith v. Er Christian’s Empirical Analysis
763 F.2d 1322 · 1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2013
2 federal appellate · 1 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. § 2120 · 10 U.S.C. § 591 · 29 U.S.C. § 794
Relies on Morton v. Mancari · United States v. Borden Co. · Johnson v. Alexander · Thrasher v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... the specific authority in 10 U.S.C. Secs. 591 (b) and 5579(a) must take precedence over the general guidelines of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 on the subject of physical qualifications for commissioned officers of the Naval Reserve.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Christian“Except as otherwise provided by law, the Secretary concerned shall prescribe physical, mental, moral, professional, and age qualifications for the appointment of persons as Reserves of the armed forces under his jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doe v. Garrett“Where there is no clear intention otherwise, a specific statute will not be controlled or nullified by a general one, regardless of the priority of enactment.”
1 later decision 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.