American Federation of Government Employees v. Nimmo’s Empirical Analysis
711 F.2d 28 · 1983
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2015 · most notably Traynor v. Turnage (1988), Andrade v. Lauer (1984)
11 federal appellate · 3 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. § 3102
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · Johnson v. Robison · Aircraft & Diesel Equipment Corp. v. Hirsch · Montana Chapter of Ass'n of Civilian Technicians, Inc. v. Young
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“exhaustion is particularly appropriate when the administrative remedy may eliminate the necessity of deciding constitutional questions.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“long settled rule of judicial administration that no one is entitled to judicial relief for a supposed or threatened injury until the prescribed administrative remedy has been exhausted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[C]ourts are not precluded from considering the VA's statutory authority for promulgating regulations and the constitutionality of its actions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gott 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.