Fletcher v. Derwinski’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 271 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Allday v. Brown (1995), Quarles v. Derwinski (1992)
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. § 7104
Relies on Gilbert v. Derwinski · Colvin v. Derwinski · Webster 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 271 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do not mean to imply that a remand, such as is done here, is merely for the purposes of rewriting the opinion so that it will superficially comply with the “reasons or bases” requirement of 38 U.S.C. § 7104 (d)(1) (formerly § 4004). A remand is meant to entail a critical examination of the justification for the decision.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“all evidence and material of record and applicable provisions of law”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moran v. Principi
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.