Grantham v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
114 F.3d 1156 · 1997
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Williams v. Principi (2002), Ledford v. West (1998)
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. § 7105
Relies on Cabot Corp. v. United States · Hamilton v. Brown · Travelstead v. Derwinski · Hamilton 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An exception to this rule [of finality] does exist when the remand disposes of an important legal issue that would be effectively unreviewable at a later stage of litigation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is axiomatic that the language in [any case] must be read in light of the facts and issues that were before the court when the language was written.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is clear that an agency of original jurisdiction's (AOJ's) first decision regarding a claim for benefits might not resolve, or even address, all necessary elements of the application for benefits,”
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.