Kirkhuff v. Nimmo’s Empirical Analysis
683 F.2d 544 · 1982
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2002 · most notably National Wildlife Federation v. Gorsuch (1982), Dart v. United States (1988)
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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
Relies on Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Stanley v. Illinois · Dandridge v. Williams · Weinberger v. Salfi · Federal Crop Ins Corporation v. Merrill
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.
“Administrator on any question of law or fact under any law administered by the Veterans Administration providing benefits for veterans.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(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“decisions of the Administrator on any question of law or fact under any law administered by the Veterans’ Administration providing benefits ... shall be final and conclusive and no other official or any court of the United States shall have power or jurisdiction to review any such decision by an action in the nature of mandamus or otherwise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.