Smith v. Derwinski’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Caluza v. Brown (1995), Allday v. Brown (1995)
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
Relies on Gilbert v. Derwinski · Colvin v. Derwinski · Manio v. Derwinski · Hatlestad v. Derwinski · Jones 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts may take judicial notice of facts not subject to reasonable dispute.”
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.