Able v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 2012
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 654 · 10 U.S.C. § 925 · 28 U.S.C. § 534 (National Law)
Relies on City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Bolling v. Sharpe · Plyler v. Doe · Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A) any bodily contact, actively undertaken or passively permitted, between members of the same sex for the purpose of satisfying sexual desires; and (B) any bodily contact which a reasonable person would understand to demonstrate a propensity or intent to engage in an act described in subparagraph (A).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“) appeal from the July 2, 1997 Memorandum and Order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Eugene H. Nickerson, Senior District Judge ), which found that § 571(b) of the National Defense Authorization Act for the Fiscal Year 1994 (the”
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.