Nelson v. Nicholson’s Empirical Analysis
489 F.3d 1380 · 2007
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2025
5 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 Pioneer Investment Services Company v. Brunswick Associates Limited Partnership · Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs · Bailey v. West · Pincay v. Andrews · Jaquay 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because the issue before us is whether equitable tolling is available under 38 U.S.C. § 7266 (a) in a case of excusable neglect, we have jurisdiction to decide whether equitable tolling is appropriate in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. James v. Wilkie
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.