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”
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.