Hicks v. Small’s Empirical Analysis
69 F.3d 967 · 1995
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 21 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Price v. United States (2000), Veterans for Common Sense v. Shinseki (2012)
12 federal appellate · 21 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
Applies 38 U.S.C. § 511 · 38 U.S.C. § 7251
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Davis v. Passman · Carlson v. Green · Schweiker v. Chilicky · Shaw v. Barr
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for failure to state a claim unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.”
3 later decisions 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.