Slocumb v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
179 F.2d 31 · 1949
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 1972 · most notably De Rodulfa v. United States (1972), Hahn v. Gray (1953)
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 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. § 705
Relies on Lynch v. United States · Work v. United States Rives · Dismuke v. United States · Van Horne v. Hines · United States ex rel. Eng Fon Sing v. Uhl
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(3) Under these enactments, the District Court lacked jurisdiction to review the merits of the Administrator’s decision on appellant’s application, had the administrative proceeding progressed far enough to reach him. Moreover, the authority of Congress to withhold judicial review here is now beyond question. Veterans’ benefits are mere gratuities and ‘the grant of them creates no vested right.’ ” “The United States is not, by the creation of claims against itself, bound to provide a remedy in the courts.””
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.