Morris v. Derwinski’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2016
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 Federal Crop Ins Corporation v. Merrill · Manio v. Derwinski · Akles 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f such evidence is not received within one year from the date of such notification, no benefits may be paid or furnished by reason of such application.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“entirely consistent with the command of 38 U.S.C. § 3003 (a) regarding the disposition of incomplete claims.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[W]here evidence requested in connection with an original claim ... is not furnished within 1 year after the date of request, the claim will be considered abandoned. After the expiration of 1 year, further action will not be taken unless a new claim is received. Should the right to benefits be finally established ... compensation ... shall com- menee not earlier than the date of filing the new claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.