Lutz v. Secretary of the Air Force’s Empirical Analysis
944 F.2d 1477 · 1991
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Pelletier v. Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (1992), Mier v. Owens (1995)
35 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
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
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Abney v. United States · Feres v. United States · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This circuit has extended the application of Feres to suits between individual members of the military, recognizing an 'intramilitary immunity' from suits based on injuries sustained incident to service.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“arise out of or are in the course of activity incident to service.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that not every action by one member of the armed services against another implicates military decision making, relates to the military mission, or is incident to service.”
2 later decisions 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.