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military discretion

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 287 U.S. 378 - Sterling v. Constantin · 1932Most cited · 760 citing opinions

What are the allowable limits of military discretion, and whether or not they have been overstepped in a particular case, are judicial questions.

How often courts cite the case defining “military discretion”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “military discretion” — 763 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case 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.