Sammarco v. Derwinski’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably Masors v. Derwinski (1992), Green v. Derwinski (1991)
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 Pullman-Standard v. Swint · Gilbert v. Derwinski · Kelley v. Everglades Drainage District · Murphy v. Derwinski · Snyder v. United States
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether the BVA's ultimate conclusions are correct or not, . . . the incomplete nature of the decision below does not permit proper review by this Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.