Bates v. Nicholson’s Empirical Analysis
398 F.3d 1355 · 2005
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Veterans for Common Sense v. Shinseki (2012), Beasley v. Shinseki (2013)
4 federal appellate · 1 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 Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Morton v. Mancari · Johnson v. Robison · United States v. Fausto · Illinois v. City of Milwaukee
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'decision by the Secretary under a law that affects the provision of veterans' benefits.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) All questions in a matter which under section 511(a) of this title is subject to decision by the Secretary shall be subject to one review on appeal to the Secretary. Final decisions on such appeals shall be made by the Board. Decisions of the Board shall be based on the entire record in the proceeding and upon consideration of all evidence and material of record and applicable provisions of law and regulation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is commonplace to refer to single statutory sections and subsections as “laws,” and not to reserve that designation exclusively for whole public laws. This is not to say that a statutory section or subsection is the only meaning of the term “law,” but simply that it cannot reasonably be claimed that the “plain meaning” of the term “law” is restricted to public laws.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.