Kell v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
November 1967
most recently cited
10 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Mitchell v. United States · Gann v. Meek · Shapiro v. United States · Boring v. United States · Peart v. Chaze
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We analyze and compare cases; this is a part of the science of jurisprudence. The question at issue here is when has there been and when has there not been a change of beneficiary. The only safe procedure for the Court is not to lose itself in the analysis of cases; it should, once in a while, come back to the statute and the regulations thereunder — not to be led astray therefrom by the charity of expression by which a Court may be moved in each case of this character. ****** “Seriously, what is the more to be condemned is that the Court is legislating when it leaves the clear and unambiguous meaning of the statute and the regulations. Step by step, case by case, one gets further and further away from the statute and the regulations; until they are all but gone!””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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