Barefield v. Byrd’s Empirical Analysis
320 F.2d 455 · 1963
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 1993 · most notably Thurber v. Brown (1993), Penn v. Schtlesinger (1973)
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Lynch v. United States · Shaughnessy v. Pedreiro · Marcello v. Bonds · Heikkila v. Barber · Lockerty v. Phillips
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On and after October 17, 1940, . . . the decisions of the Administrator on any question of law or fact under any law administered by the Veterans’ Administration providing benefits for veterans and their dependents or survivors shall be final and conclusive and no other official or any court of the United States shall have power or jurisdiction to review any such decision by any action in the nature of mandamus or otherwise.””
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.