service connected
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 395 U.S. 258 - O'Callahan v. Parker · 1969Most cited · 1,212 citing opinions
The crime to be under military jurisdiction must be service connected, lest 'cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger,' as used in the Fifth Amendment, be expanded to deprive every member of the armed services of the benefits of an indictment by a grand jury and a trial by a jury of his peers.
How often courts cite the case defining “service connected”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “service connected” — 1,211 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.