Edward T. Splane and Paralyzed Veterans of America v. Togo D. West, Jr., Secretary of Veterans Affairs’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 50 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 280 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Fedaa al Najjar Mazen al Najjar v. John Ashcroft Attorney General US Department of Justice (2001), Burg v. Gosselin (2010)
35 federal appellate · 50 district · 9 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
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs · Chrysler Corporation v. Brown · United States v. Gonzales · Shalala v. Guernsey Memorial Hospital
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 280 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n interpretative statement simply indicates an agency's reading of a statute or a rule. It does not intend to create new rights or duties, but only reminds affected parties of existing duties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]anons of construction . . . require us to give effect to the clear language of a statute and avoid rendering any portions meaningless or superfluous.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“are to the binding effect of that regulation on tribunals outside the agency. This clarification was made in rejecting an argument by petitioners who challenged an interpretive rule of an agency as having the”
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.