Norris v. West’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Roberson v. Principi (2001), Comer v. Peake (2009)
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. § 1155 · 38 U.S.C. § 5101 · 38 U.S.C. § 5107 · 38 U.S.C. § 5109A · 38 U.S.C. § 5110 · 38 U.S.C. § 5904 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7252
Relies on Russell v. Principi · Quarles v. Derwinski · EF v. Derwinski · Hamilton 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Total disability ratings for compensation may be assigned, where the schedu-lar rating is less than total, when the disabled person is, in the judgment of the rating agency, unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation as a result of service-connected disabilities: Provided That, if there is only one such disability, this disability shall be ratable at 60 percent or more, and that, if there are two or more disabilities, there shall be at least one disability ratable at 40 percent or more, and sufficient additional disability to bring the combined rating to 70 percent or more. For the above purpose of one 60 percent disability, or one 40 percent disability in combination, the following will be considered as one disability: ... multiple injuries incurred in action....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“in cases in which the only compensable service-connected disability is a mental disorder assigned a seventy percent evaluation, and such mental disorder precludes a veteran from securing or following a substantially gainful occupation . . . the mental disorder shall be assigned a 100 percent evaluation under the appropriate diagnostic code.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roberson v. Principi“loses sight of the Congressional mandate that the VA is to 'fully and sympathetically develop the veteran's claim to its optimum before decision on its merits.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roberson v. Principi
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.