Padgett v. Nicholson’s Empirical Analysis
473 F.3d 1364 · 2007
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably McGee v. Peake (2008), Deloach v. Shinseki (2013)
9 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
Relies on United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · U.S. Bancorp Mortgage Co. v. Bonner Mall Partnership · Fishgold v. Sullivan Drydock & Repair Corp. · King v. St. Vincent's Hospital · Harris v. Commissioner
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“|T]he rule established by the general concurrence of the American and English courts is, that where the delay in rendering a judgment or a decree arises from the act of the court, that is, where the delay has been caused either for its convenience, or by the multiplicity or press of business, either the intricacy of the questions involved, or of any other cause not attributable to the laches of the parties, the judgment or the decree may be entered retrospectively, as of a time when it should or might have been entered up.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This case presents two [questions of law]. First, where a veteran dies after his case is submitted for decision, but before the opinion issues, does the Veterans Court have authority to issue the judgment nunc pro tunc as of the time of his death? Second, and intertwined with the first, is whether, under these circumstances, the surviving spouse, as accrued-benefits claimant, may be substituted on her husband’s appeal?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In our view, granting nunc pro tunc relief here is consistent with, if not compelled by, the statutory 4 scheme for awarding benefits to veterans and their survivors.”
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.