Felton v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2107 · 38 U.S.C. § 501 · 38 U.S.C. § 5503 · 38 U.S.C. § 7261 · 38 U.S.C. § 7292
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Gulf Oil Co. v. Bernard · National Labor Relations Board v. United Food & Commercial Workers Union, Local 23 · Jean v. Nelson
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A) In any case in which a veteran having neither spouse nor child is being furnished hospital treatment or institutional or domiciliary care without charge or otherwise by the United States, or any political division thereof, is rated by the Secretary in accordance with regulations as being incompetent, and the veteran’s estate (excluding the value of the veteran’s home unless there is no reasonable likelihood that the veteran will again reside in such home), from any source equals or exceeds $1,500, further payments of pension, compensation, or emergency officers’ retirement pay shall not be made until the estate is reduced to $500. (B) The amount which would be payable but for this paragraph shall be paid to the veteran in a lump sum; however, no payment of a lump sum herein authorized shall be made to the veteran until after the expiration of six months following a finding of competency and in the event of the veteran’s death before payment of such lump sum no part thereof shall be payable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Felton v. Brown“added restriction is an unauthorized limitation on the scope of [the governing statute]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ozer v. Principi
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.