Frankel v. Derwinski’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 315 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Green v. Derwinski (1991), Bethea v. Derwinski (1992)
1 federal appellate ·
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. § 103
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Danville Plywood Corporation 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 315 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. does not establish a new rule of law; 2. does not alter, modify, criticize, or clarify an existing rule of law; 3. does not apply an established rule of law to a novel fact situation; 4. does not constitute the only recent, binding precedent on a particular point of law within the power of the Court to decide; 5. does not involve a legal issue of continuing public interest; and 6. the outcome is not reasonably debatable.”
4 later decisions 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.