Kirkpatrick v. Nicholson’s Empirical Analysis
417 F.3d 1361 · 2005
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Denise Jarrell v. R. James Nicholson (2006), 20 Vet. App. 307 - Arthur D. Roebuck v. R. James Nicholson (2006)
1 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7252 · 38 U.S.C. § 7266 · 38 U.S.C. § 7292
Relies on Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · McCarthy v. Madigan · Great Southern Fire Proof Hotel Co. v. Jones · Maggitt v. West · Williams v. Principi
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“with respect to the validity of a decision of the Court on a rule of law or of any statute or regulation ... or any interpretation thereof (other than a determination as to a factual matter) that was relied on by the [Veterans] Court in making the decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“respect the congressional delegation of authority to agencies in the matters entrusted to them and should also respect their specialized expertise in deciding the matters before them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'when the Board has not rendered a decision on a particular issue, the court has no jurisdiction to consider it under section 7252(a)'”
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.