Chinnock v. Turnage’s Empirical Analysis
995 F.2d 889 · 1993
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2014
9 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.
Relationships
Relies on Tietjen v. United States Veterans Administration · Combee v. Principi · Ford v. Manufacturers Hanover Mortgage Corp.
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.
“The Secretary [of Veterans Affairs] shall decide all questions of law and fact necessary to a decision by the Secretary under a law that affects the provision of benefits by the Secretary to veterans or the dependents or survivors of veterans. Subject to subsection (b), the decision of the Secretary as to any such question shall be final and conclusive and may not be reviewed by any other official or by any court, whether by an action in the nature of mandamus or otherwise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“An action of the [VA] Secretary to which section 552(a)(1) [of the APA] ... refers ... is subject to judicial review. Such review shall be in accordance with chapter 7 of title 5 and may be sought only in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under 38 U.S.C. § 502, VA rulemaking is subject to judicial review only in the Federal Circuit.”
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.