Devine v. Cleland’s Empirical Analysis
616 F.2d 1080 · 1980
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Thurber v. Brown (1993), Council of & for the Blind of Delaware County Valley, Inc. v. Regan (1983)
31 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Goldberg v. Kelly · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No plaintiff herein is challenging a substantive decision by the VA to suspend, reduce, set off or terminate an individual’s educational benefits... . The sole issue before the Court involves the nature and extent of due process procedural requirements.... Thus, the issue is not whether the Administrator ruled incorrectly on the class’ entitlement to benefits, but whether Due Process compels certain procedural safeguards in advance of such rulings. 616 F.2d at 1084 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) to insure that veterans’ benefits claims will not burden the courts and the Veterans’ Administration with expensive and time-consuming litigation, and (2) to insure that the technical and complex determinations and applications of Veterans’ Administration policy connected with veterans’ benefits decisions will be adequately and uniformly made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Administrator on any question of law or fact under any law administered by the Veterans Administration providing benefits for veterans.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Winslow v. Walters
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.