Cohen v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Helfer v. West (1999), Holliday v. Principi (2001)
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. § 1154 · 38 U.S.C. § 5101 · 38 U.S.C. § 5107 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7261
Relies on Morton v. Ruiz · Service v. Dulles · Vitarelli v. Seaton · Gilbert v. Derwinski · Colvin 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The DSM-IV provides two requirements as to the sufficiency of a stressor: (1) A person must have been “exposed to a traumatic event” in which “the person experienced, witnessed, or was confronted with an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others” and (2) “the person’s response [must have] involved intense fear, helplessness, or horror”. DSM-IV at 427-28. These criteria are no longer based solely on usual experience and response but are individualized (geared to the specific individual’s actual experience and response).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harth v. West“eligibility for a PTSD service-connection award ... requires the presence of three elements: (1) A current, clear medical diagnosis of PTSD (presumed to include the adequacy of the PTSD symptomatology and the sufficiency of a claimed in-service stressor, ... ); (2) credible supporting evidence that the claimed in-service stressor actually occurred; and (3) medical evidence of a causal nexus between current symptomatology and the specific claimed in-service stressor.”
1 later decision 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.