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317 F.2d 901 · 1962

Citation profile

45
cited by 45 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
June 1992
most recently cited

25 federal appellate ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 45 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1992 · most notably Johnson v. Robison (1974), Nicholas J. Larionoff, Jr. v. The United States of America, Nicholas J. Larionoff, Jr. v. The United States of America (1976)

25 federal appellate ·

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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 Flemming v. Nestor · Speiser v. Randall · Dennis v. United States · Lynch v. United States · Aetna Life Insurance v. Texas Gulf Sulphur Co.

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

  1. “* * * Appellee says the court has no jurisdiction, because the Tucker Act and the veterans laws [ 38 U.S.C. § 211 (a)] deny jurisdiction to review action on claims for benefits. We treated the argument, and rejected it, in Wellman. We there held that a forfeiture of benefits is not, and does not create, a claim to benefits or a claim to pensions within the meaning of those statutes. * * *”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “fiendish Lidicies perpetrated by American hands.”
    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.