Towery v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
97 F.2d 906 · 1938
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2006
2 federal appellate · 1 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 38 U.S.C. § 512
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it shall be deemed that the right accrued on the happening of the contingency on which the claim is founded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the contingency upon which the claim is founded”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the right accrued for which the claim is made,”
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.