69 Wash. 2d 277 - Fleming v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1996
6 federal appellate · 11 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 38 U.S.C. § 3101
Relies on Leyerly v. United States · 93 Cal. App. 2d 808 - Kauffman v. Kauffman · Williams v. Williams · Pack v. United States · 64 Wash. 2d 181 - Fleming v. Smith
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is beyond dispute that if, before payment, there are contesting claims to the proceeds of a National Service Life Insurance policy, the sole jurisdiction to determine who is entitled thereto is, by Congressional enactment, vested solely in the Veterans’ Administration and the federal courts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kinsolving v. McGee““In the event of disagreement as to claim . . . under a contract of National Service Life Insurance between the Veterans’ Administration and any person or persons claiming thereunder an action on the claim may be brought against the United States . . in the United States District Court . . . ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kinsolving v. McGee
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.