Cooper v. Marsh’s Empirical Analysis
807 F.2d 988 · 1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2019
1 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. § 1552 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2401 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Rose v. Lundy · Randolph-Sheppard Vendors of America v. Weinberger · Williams v. Secretary of the Navy · Downen v. Warner · Baxter v. Claytor
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Before the amendment [the Army Board of Corrections for Military Records] lacked the power to overturn a court-martial conviction.... After the amendment, it still lacks that power and is now limited in the extent to which it can correct a court-martial record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“could, if it considered it necessary to correct an error or remove an injustice, completely expunge all reference to a court-martial ever having occurred.”
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.