Brown v. Royall’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
October 1968
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 5 U.S.C. § 1001
Relies on Wales v. Whitney
Most-quoted passages
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“It has long been recognized that the civil courts may, incidental to their right to inquire into the legality of restraint of the person, determine in habeas corpus proceedings the validity of the actions by which the liberty of a petitioner is restrained, even where such restraint is by virtue of the action of a court martial. * * * But, in no instance, so far as the authorities submitted, or any which I have been able to discover, disclose, has a civil court undertaken to pass upon and determine the validity of a court martial in a proceedings for a declaratory judgment, or to order and direct the officials of the War Department to alter its records, or issue new ones pursuant to the court’s judgment with respect to such court martial action. I believe that the principle which controls here is expressly stated by the Supreme Court in the case of Wales v. Whitney, Secretary of the Navy (decided May 4, 1885), 114 U.S. 564 , 5 S.Ct. 1050, 1052 , 29 L.Ed. 277 * * * Brown v. Royall, supra.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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