Ricks v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
842 F.2d 300 · 1988
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2007
14 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. § 1210 · 10 U.S.C. § 1376
Relies on Feres v. United States · United States v. Johnson · Atkinson v. United States · Shults v. United States · Rayner 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“availing himself of military treatment in ... a military medical facility.”
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.