Ray v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 federal appellate ·

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “For its own convenience, the Veterans Administration on July 10th, 1947, issued TB-9-35 in paragraph 9, of which the pertinent part reads: “In any case where ‘Application for Reinstatement’ (non-medical) (VA Form 9-353a) is received and the applicant answered ‘Yes’ to the question, ‘Are you now in as good health as you were on the due date of the first premium in default,’ and ‘No’ to the question ‘Have you been ill, or suffered or contracted any disease, injury, or infirmity, or been prevented by reason thereof from attending your usual occupation, or consulted a physician, surgeon, or other practitioner for medical advice or treatment at home, hospital, or elsewhere in regard to your health, since lapse of this insurance’, and it is indicated in the application that he has applied for disability compensation, retirement pay, pension, or waiver of premiums, or has otherwise been assigned a O-number, it would not be necessary to requisition the Claims folder. Such applications will be forwarded to the Accounts Unit, Underwriting and Insurance Accounts Division, and if all other requirements incident to the reinstatement are met, the application will be approved by the premium review clerk in accordance with existing procedure.” It was not the practice of the Veterans Administration to consult the claim file and even though the applicant stated he had applied for compensation or pension to ignore such fact.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. McDaniel v. United States