Murphy v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
993 F.2d 871 · 1993
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 186 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Fisher v. United States (2005), Martinez v. United States (2003)
19 federal appellate · 4 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 · 10 U.S.C. § 681 · 28 U.S.C. § 1491 · 37 U.S.C. § 204 · 5 U.S.C. § 701
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Hecht Co. v. Bowles · Orloff v. Willoughby · Kreis v. Secretary of the Air Force
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 186 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[J]udges are not given the task of running the Army. The responsibility for setting up channels through which such grievances can be considered and fairly settled rests upon the Congress and upon the President of the United States and his subordinates. The military constitutes a specialized community governed by a separate discipline from that of the civilian. Orderly government requires that the judiciary be as scrupulous not to interfere with legitimate Army matters as the Army must be scrupulous not to intervene in judicial matters.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A court may appropriately decide whether the military followed procedures because by their nature the procedures limit the military’s discretion. The court is not called upon to exercise any discretion reserved for the military, it merely deter mines whether the procedures were followed by applying the facts to the statutory or regulatory standard.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here is no way a court can review that conclusion. A court lacks the special expertise needed to review reserve officers' records and rank them on the basis of relative merit. . . .”
3 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.