Link v. West’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably 12 Vet. App. 396 - Evans v. West (1999), Norris v. West (1999)
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. § 5107 · 38 U.S.C. § 5109A · 38 U.S.C. § 5110 · 38 U.S.C. § 7103 · 38 U.S.C. § 7105 · 38 U.S.C. § 7251 · 38 U.S.C. § 7252 · 38 U.S.C. § 7261
Relies on United States v. Chemical Foundation, Inc. · Gilbert v. Derwinski · Russell v. Principi · Fugo v. Brown · Bucklinger 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Claims that have been referred by the Board to the [regional office] are not ripe for review by the Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the action or determination shall become final”
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.