10 U.S.C. § 4334
Section 4334 · Command and supervision
Amended 3 times on record
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Dunmar v. Ailes (1965)
Most recently applied in Anderson v. Laird (June 1972)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) The supervision and charge of the Academy is in the Department of the Army, under officers of the Army detailed to that duty by the Secretary of the Army.
(b) The immediate government of the Academy is under the Superintendent, who is also the commanding officer of the Academy and of the military post at West Point.
(c) The Commandant of Cadets is the immediate commander of the Corps of Cadets, and is in charge of the instruction of the Corps in tactics.
(d) The permanent professors and the director of admissions exercise command only in the academic department of the Academy.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
In subsection (a), the word “detailed” is substituted for the word “assign” to conform to section 4333 of this title.
In subsection (b), the words “and, in his absence, the next in rank” are omitted as surplusage.
In subsection (c), the words “Corps of Cadets” are substituted for the words “battalion of cadets” to conform to section 4349 of this title and present terminology. The words “of artillery, cavalry, and infantry” are omitted as surplusage.
In subsection (d), reference to assimilated rank is omitted as superseded by section 4336 of this title. The words “and the associate professor” are omitted as obsolete.
Amendments
1978—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 95–551 substituted “director of admissions” for “registrar”.
1958—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 85–600 inserted “and the registrar” after “professors”.