Green v. Derwinski’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Caluza v. Brown (1995), Allday v. Brown (1995)
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. § 310
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Gilbert v. Derwinski · Frankel v. Derwinski · Murphy v. Derwinski · Littke v. Derwinski
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is equally impossible to square the Secretary's duty to assist a claimant . . . with the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) failure to follow up the suggestion by the examining physician that a review of the veteran's records 'might help clarify the diagnostic doubt' and that additional diagnostic studies might be in order if such doubt remains.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[F]ulfillment of the statutory duty to assist [requires] a thorough and contemporaneous medical examination, one which takes into account the records of prior medical treatment, so that the evaluation of the claimed disability will be a fully informed one.”
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.