Knutson v. Wisconsin Air National Guard’s Empirical Analysis
995 F.2d 765 · 1993
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2020 · most notably Jones v. New York State Division of Military & Naval Affairs (1999), Bowen v. Oistead (1997)
18 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Butz v. Economou · Feres v. United States · Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co.
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“occupies a distinct role in the federal structure that does not fit neatly within the scope of either state or national concerns. In each state the National Guard is a state agency, under state authority and control. At the same time, federal law accounts, to a significant extent, for the composition and function of the Guard. Accordingly, the Guard may serve the state in times of civil strife within its borders while also being available for federal service during national emergencies.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Charles v. Rice · Stirling v. Brown“[t]hese sorts of reinstatement claims, often pending for several years in civilian courts, may well leave WIANG in limbo awaiting the outcome of litigation and thus significantly hamper its ability to staff properly and to fulfill its mission.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“erroneously 'intertwine[d] the concept of justiciability with the standards to be applied to the merits of the case.'”
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.