Meeks v. West’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Meeks v. West (2000), Trilles v. West (2000)
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 38 U.S.C. § 5110 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7261
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Gilbert v. Derwinski · Gardner v. Derwinski · Danville Plywood Corporation v. United States · Fenderson v. West
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'each part or section [of a statute] should be construed in connection with every other part or section so as to produce a harmonious whole.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not be earlier than the date of receipt of application therefor,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Meeks v. West“[u]nless specifically provided otherwise in this chapter,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Meeks v. West
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.