Frederick v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
280 F.2d 844 · 1960
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 1996
2 federal appellate · 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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * * * (b) It is further presumed that any additional disability resulting from the pre-existing injury or disease was caused by military service.aggravation. Only specific-findings of “natural progress” of the pre-existing injury or disease based upon well-established medical principles, as distinguished from medical opinion alone, are sufficient to overcome the presumption of military service aggravation.”
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.