Van Horne v. Hines’s Empirical Analysis
122 F.2d 207 · 1941
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 21 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently September 1980 · most notably De Rodulfa v. United States (1972), Rubinstein v. Brownell (1953)
46 federal appellate · 21 district · 10 state decisions
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. § 701 · 38 U.S.C. § 715
Relies on Kline v. Burke Construction Co. · Lynch v. United States · Hallowell v. Commons · White v. United States · Silberschein v. United States
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the root is cut the branches fall;”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, except as provided in section 19 of the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, as amended, and in section 817 of the National Service Life Insurance Act of_ 1940, the decisions of the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs on any question of law or fact concerning a claim for benefits or payments under this or any other Act administered by the Veterans’ Administration shall be final and conclusive and no other official or any court of the United States shall have power or jurisdiction to review any such decisions.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“has the effect of depriving the courts of jurisdiction to review decisions of the Administrator in all cases and notwithstanding the appeal, as in the present case, was perfected prior to the time of its enactment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.