Tracy v. Gleason’s Empirical Analysis
379 F.2d 469 · 1967
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2012 · most notably Johnson v. Robison (1974), De Rodulfa v. United States (1972)
23 federal appellate · 5 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.
Relationships
Relies on Van Horne v. Hines · Boyer v. Bealor · Hahn v. Gray · Wellman v. Whittier
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any decision of the Administrator `on any question of law or fact under any law administered by the Veterans' Administration.'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * to be of unsound mind, suffering from dementia praecox catatonic type with homicidal or otherwise dangerous tendencies and particularly that he has not sufficient capacity for the government of himself and his property, that he has been so insane since June 30, 1936. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tracy v. Gleason“1. Pension benefits were granted the veteran effective September 10, 1948, date of receipt of application, at which time it was reported that he had been hospitalized at St. Elizabeth's Hospital since 1936 for a mental condition. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tracy v. Gleason
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.