Thomas v. Principi’s Empirical Analysis
394 F.3d 970 · 2005
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 106 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 173 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably American National Insurance v. Federal Deposit Insurance (2011), Wilson v. Libby (2008)
16 federal appellate · 106 district · 2 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 Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Haines v. Kerner · Bush v. Lucas · Barr v. Clinton
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 173 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“assume the truth of all material factual allegations in the complaint and 'construe the complaint liberally, granting plaintiff the benefit of all inferences that can be derived from the facts alleged.'”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Secretary shall decide all questions of law and fact necessary to a decision by the Secretary under a law that affects the provision of benefits by the Secretary to veterans or the dependents or survivors of veterans”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because none of these claims alleges that the VA failed to pay for treatment (or even to provide for treatment), they raise no “questions of law [or] fact necessary to a decision by the -Secretary under a law that affects the provision of benefits.” 38 U.S.C. § 511 . The raised “questions of law and fact” relate to whether the alleged withholding of the diagnosis states a tort claim, and resolution .of those questions is not “necessary” to the benefits determination. See id. Putting the issue in Price’s terms, no denial of benefits “underlies]” Thomas’s failure-to-inform allegations. See 228 F.3d at 421 .”
2 later decisions 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.