YR v. West’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 2013
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. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7252
Relies on Rock v. Arkansas · Gilbert v. Derwinski · Murphy v. Derwinski · Caluza v. Brown · Allday 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“state[d], with respect to claims based upon a personal assault: “The service record may be devoid of evidence because many victims of personal assault, especially sexual assault and domestic violence, do not file official reports either with military or civilian authorities.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. AZ v. Shinseki
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.