Meadows v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
281 U.S. 271 · 1930
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 21 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1979 · most notably Lynch v. United States (1934), Dismuke v. United States (1936)
64 federal appellate · 21 district ·
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Meadows (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on White v. United States · Silberschein v. United States · Aetna Life Insurance v. Dunken · United States v. Williams
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the event of disagreement as to claim, * * * under a contract of insurance between the Veterans’ Administration and any person or persons claiming thereunder an action on the claim may be brought against the United States either in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia or in the district court of the United States in and for the district in which such persons or any one of them resides, and jurisdiction is conferred upon such courts to hear and determine all such controversies.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the ground that the applicant, at'the -■ ; time of making .the application, was - totally and permanently disabled; and, that section 19 of the World War Veterv.ans’ .'Act of 1924, as amended, 38 U.S: CA.,. §- 445, which confers jurisdiction upon the District Courts to hear and determine controversies arising out of claims under contracts of insurance in • the event of disagreement”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The right to reinstatement, when it exists, flows from the statutory provision and not from any undertaking expressed in the contract of insurance ... a reinstatement under the provisions of the statute would be not the fulfillment of a contractual obligation, but, in effect the making of a new contract by statutory sanction.”
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.