Cone, George E. v. Caldera, Louis

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• applying an “unusually deferential application” of the APA standard to a decision of the Army Board for Correction of Military Records
• applying heightened deference in a case involving Army Board for Correction of Military Records’ refusal to force quantitative personnel ratings to conform to a bell curve
• allowing the courts to become “a forum for appeals by every soldier dissatisfied with his or her ratings ... would take the judiciary far afield of its area of competence”
• allowing the courts to become “a forum for appeals by every soldier dissatisfied with his or her ratings … would take the judiciary far afield of its area of competence”
• “decisions of the [Air Force] Board [for Correction of Military Records] are renewable under the APA, albeit by an unusually deferential application of the ‘arbitrary or capricious’ standard”
• requiring an unusually high level of deference to ABCMR decisions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

107 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Sierra Club v. Mainella
  District of Columbia· 2012-04-25· cited 384×
• Piersall, Charles v. Winter, Donald C.
  D.C. Circuit· 2006-01-27· cited 103×
• Becky Roberts v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 2014-01-24· cited 79×
• Coe v. McHugh
  District of Columbia· 2013-09-26· cited 54×
• Musengo, James v. Caldera, Louis
  D.C. Circuit· 2002-04-16· cited 40×
• Mueller, Douglas J. v. England, Gordon R.
  D.C. Circuit· 2007-05-11· cited 39×
• Atlas Air, Inc. v. Air Line Pilots Ass'n
  D.C. Circuit· 2000-11-21· cited 29×
• Fuller v. Winter
  District of Columbia· 2008-03-14· cited 25×
• Escobedo v. Green
  District of Columbia· 2009-03-19· cited 22×
• Homer v. Roche
  District of Columbia· 2002-10-22· cited 20×
• Roberts v. United States
  District of Columbia· 2012-03-23· cited 20×
• Miller v. Department of Navy
  D.C. Circuit· 2007-01-19· cited 17×
• Lebrun v. England
  District of Columbia· 2002-07-11· cited 16×
• Rudo v. Geren
  District of Columbia· 2011-03-24· cited 16×
• Albino v. United States
  District of Columbia· 2015-01-15· cited 15×
• Thompson v. United States
  E.D. Virginia· 2015-07-20· cited 15×
• Reilly v. Secretary of the Navy
  District of Columbia· 2014-01-29· cited 13×
• Bolton v. Dep't of the Navy Bd. for Corr. of Naval Records
  Sixth Circuit· 2019-01-18· cited 13×
• Gillan, Martin J. v. Winter, Donald C.
  D.C. Circuit· 2007-01-19· cited 12×
• Piersall v. Winter
  District of Columbia· 2007-08-21· cited 12×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Camp v. Pitts
  Supreme Court· 1973-03-26· cited 2,333×
• Chappell v. Wallace
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-13· cited 1,183×
• Orloff v. Willoughby
  Supreme Court· 1953-04-06· cited 957×
• Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. v. Douglas M. Costle, as Administrator, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
  D.C. Circuit· 1981-04-21· cited 380×
• John F. Kreis v. Secretary of the Air Force
  D.C. Circuit· 1989-02-07· cited 339×
• Dennis A. Dickson v. Secretary of Defense
  D.C. Circuit· 1995-10-31· cited 267×
• Michael K. Frizelle v. Rodney E. Slater, Secretary of Transportation
  D.C. Circuit· 1997-04-25· cited 195×
• Stuart Sargisson v. The United States
  Federal Circuit· 1990-10-18· cited 161×
• Billy Ray Kidwell v. Department of the Army, Board for Correction of Military Records
  D.C. Circuit· 1995-06-13· cited 123×
• Cone v. Caldera
  District of Columbia· 1999-02-18· cited 1×