Malone v. Gober’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2014
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 31 U.S.C. § 1341 · 31 U.S.C. § 1350 · 38 U.S.C. § 1701 (Faster Care for Veterans Act of 2016) · 38 U.S.C. § 1703 · 38 U.S.C. § 1710 · 38 U.S.C. § 1728 · 38 U.S.C. § 503 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · William Marbury v. James Madison · Heckler v. Chaney · Bush v. Lucas
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even where a matter is left to the discretion of the Secretary by statute, the Secretary would still be bound by any limitations placed upon the exercise of that discretion by regulation, and the Secretary's compliance with such regulatory criteria is subject to judicial review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.