Bright v. Nimmo’s Empirical Analysis
756 F.2d 1513 · 1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2017
3 federal appellate · 2 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 Cort v. Ash · Stein v. Reynolds Securities, Inc. · American Paper Institute, Inc. v. American Electric Power Service Corp. · Gens v. United States · Rank v. Nimmo
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“neither the statutory language nor the legislative history of the VA Act provides any indication of legislative intent . . . to create such a remedy against the private lender.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`lack[ ] any express or implied right of action in federal court to enforce duties V.A. and lenders may have pursuant to V.A. publications. . . .'”
1 later decision 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.