honorable discharge
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 82 U.S. 34 - United States v. Kelly · 1872Most cited · 49 citing opinions
a formal final judgment passed by the government upon the entire military record of the soldier, and an authoritative declaration by it that he had left the service in a status of honor; that as such, it dispensed altogether with the supposed necessity that the soldier must obtain bounty by removal, by order, of the charge of desertion from the rolls, and amounted of itself to the removal of any charge or impediment in the way of his receiving bounty
How often courts cite the case defining “honorable discharge”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “honorable discharge” — 49 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.