Felton v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Bazalo v. Brown (1996), White v. Nicholson (2005)
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. § 2412 · 38 U.S.C. § 101 (Agent Orange Act of 1991) · 38 U.S.C. § 5503 · 38 U.S.C. § 7261
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Pierce v. Underwood · United States v. Kubrick · Sloan v. Hicks · Sullivan v. Zebley
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although we held in the underlying case on the merits that the Secretary's interpretation of the statute, as set forth in [the regulation], was in excess of statutory authority, we cannot say that the Secretary's position had no reasonable basis in law or in fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. White v. Nicholson“Given the statutory silence on the particular matter and the lack of a conflict with adverse precedent, the Secretary's position during this part of the administrative phase, i.e., in promulgating the regulation at issue, was substantially justified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Ozer v. Principi“[i]n light of the regulation's history, the Secretary's position in the underlying case on the merits was substantially justified”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Ozer v. Principi
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.