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← 13 VETAPP 388 - Lee v. West

Lee v. West’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

19
cited by 19 later decisions
March 2011
most recently cited

Relationships

Applies 12 U.S.C. § 1715Z · 16 U.S.C. § 499 · 16 U.S.C. § 939 · 25 U.S.C. § 305A · 29 U.S.C. § 527 · 30 U.S.C. § 1013 · 33 U.S.C. § 1361 · 33 U.S.C. § 702A

Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Russello v. United States · Lynch v. United States · Federal Election Commission v. Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee · Brown v. Gardner

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

  1. “Gardner v. Derwinski, 1 Vet.App. 584, 586-87 (1991) (citations omitted), aff'd sub nom. Gardner v. Brown, 5 F.3d 1456 (Fed. Cir. 1993), aff'd, 513 U.S. 115 (1994). Determining the plain meaning of a statute”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “any issuance by the Secretary of . . . regulations . . . may not be inconsistent with the statutory authority granted”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[T]he construction of a life insurance policy issued by the United States is governed by federal law.”
    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.