Watson v. Ol McCotter’s Empirical Analysis
782 F.2d 143 · 1986
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 15 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Lips v. Commandant, United States Disciplinary Barracks (1993), Dodson v. Zelez (1990)
21 federal appellate · 15 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. § 920 · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2243 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Townsend v. Sain · Stone v. Powell · Burns v. Wilson · Laverick v. United States
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When an issue is briefed and argued before a military board of review, we have held that the military tribunal has given the claim fair consideration, even though its opinion summarily disposed of the issue with the mere statement that it did not consider the issue meritorious or requiring discussion.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is denied. The mandate shall issue forthwith. * Honorable Wesley E. Brown, Senior District Judge, United States District Court for the District of Kansas, sitting by designation ** This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall not be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, except for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir.R. 36.3 1 Petitioner's”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“when a military decision has dealt fully and fairly with an allegation raised in that application [for habeas corpus], it is not open to a federal civil court to grant the writ simply to re-evaluate the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Monk v. Zelez
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.