Brannon v. West’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2016
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. § 5101 · 38 U.S.C. § 7105 · 38 U.S.C. § 7251 · 38 U.S.C. § 7252
Relies on EF v. Derwinski · Hamilton v. Brown · Suttmann v. Brown · Hamilton v. Brown · Ledford v. West
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The mere presence of the medical evidence does not establish an intent on the part of the [appellant] to seek secondary service connection for the psychiatric condition . . . . While the Board must interpret the appellant's submissions broadly, the Board is not required to conjure up issues that were not raised by the appellant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he mere presence of the medical evidence does not establish an intent on the part of the veteran to seek secondary service connection for the psychiatric condition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. MacPhee v. Nicholson“the claimant must submit a written document identifying the benefit and expressing some intent to seek it”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.