Beamon v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
125 F.3d 965 · 1997
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Trzebuckowski v. City of Cleveland (2003), Price v. United States (2000)
21 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1651 · 38 U.S.C. § 5101 · 38 U.S.C. § 511 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7252 · 38 U.S.C. § 7261 · 38 U.S.C. § 7291
Relies on United States v. Mitchell · Johnson v. Robison · Bowen v. Massachusetts · Attwood v. Singletary · Walters v. National Assn. of Radiation Survivors
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) The Secretary shall decide all questions of law and fact necessary to a determination to a decision by the Secretary under a law that affects the provision of benefits by the Secretary to veterans... Subject to subsection (b), the decision of the Secretary as to any such question shall be final and conclusive and may not be reviewed by any other official or by any court...”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The history of veterans’ benefits legislation reinforces our conclusion that Congress intended to vest the [Court of Veterans Appeals] with exclusive jurisdiction over constitutional challenges to VA decisions. Before it was amended in 1988, 38 U.S.C. § 211 (a), the predecessor to § 511(a), attempted to bar district court review of all VA decisions. Because Congress had not yet established the [Court of Veterans Appeals] with its jurisdiction to review VA decisions relating to benefits, § 211(a) might have been interpreted as a complete bar to the judicial review of all challenges to such decisions. Wary of the constitutional danger of precluding judicial review of constitutional claims, the Supreme Court decided in Johnson v. Robison, 415 U.S. 361 , 94 S.Ct. 1160 , 39 L.Ed.2d 389 (1974), that § 211(a) precluded review of decisions made by the VA Administrator, but did not preclude district court jurisdiction over constitutional challenges to acts of Congress relating to veterans benefits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A person suffering legal wrong because of agency action, or adversely affected or aggrieved by agency action within the meaning of a relevant statute, is entitled to judicial review thereof. An action in a court of the United States seeking relief other than money damages and stating a claim that an agency or an officer or employee thereof acted or failed to act in an official capacity or under color of legal authority shall not be dismissed nor relief therein be denied on the ground that it is against the United States or that the United States is an indispensable party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.