Smith v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably 11 Vet. App. 468 - Marsh v. West (1998), Padgett v. Nicholson (2007)
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. § 5121 · 38 U.S.C. § 7105 · 38 U.S.C. § 7251 · 38 U.S.C. § 7261 · 38 U.S.C. § 7266
Relies on Bell v. Hood · United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · Christianson v. Colt Industries Operating Corp. · Prenzler v. Derwinski · Robinette v. Brown
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“incorporates any prior adjudications of the service-connection issue on claims brought by the veteran, because it derives from the veteran's service-connection claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Padgett v. Nicholson
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.