enlistment
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 366 U.S. 393 - Bell v. United States · 1961Most cited · 518 citing opinions
status
By enlistment the citizen becomes a soldier. His relations to the State and the public are changed. He acquires a new status, with correlative rights and duties; and although he may violate his contract obligations, his status as a soldier is unchanged.
How often courts cite the cases defining “enlistment”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “enlistment” — 593 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1937–1961
- ORIGINAL
Enlistment is more than a contract; it effects a change of status. It operates to emancipate minors at least to the extent that by enlistment they become bound to serve subject to rules governing enlisted men and entitled to have and freely to dispose of their pay.