Fenderson v. West’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Meeks v. West (1999), Dingess - Hartman v. Nicholson (2006)
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. § 1110 · 38 U.S.C. § 1155 · 38 U.S.C. § 5101 · 38 U.S.C. § 5107 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7105 · 38 U.S.C. § 7252 · 38 U.S.C. § 7261
Relies on Gilbert v. Derwinski · Fletcher v. Derwinski · Cummings v. West · 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Hence, we are presented here with a timely NOD as to this claim but regarding which the RO has never responded by issuing an SOC as required by law and regulation. The remedy for such a situation is controlled by our opinion in Holland v. Gober, 10 Vet.App. 433, 436 (1997) (per curiam order) (vacating BVA decision and remanding matter when VA failed to issue SOC after claimant submitted timely NOD)....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is not applicable to the assignment of an initial rating for a disability following an initial award of service connection for that disability”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. McGrath v. Gober“for appropriate procedural compliance, specifically the issuance of an SOC”
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.