Ahern v. Veterans Administration’s Empirical Analysis
537 F.2d 1098 · 1976
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably United States v. Boxes of Boned Beef Weighing Approximately Pounds (1984), 70 N.C. App. 627 - Estrada v. Jaques (1984)
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
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 28 U.S.C. § 2111
Relies on Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Richards v. United States · Cappaert v. United States · Quarles v. Fuqua Industries, Inc. · Cervantes v. Forbis
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the prevailing party and give it the benefit of all inferences that may reasonably be drawn therefrom.”
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.