Maxson v. West’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2012
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. § 1111 · 38 U.S.C. § 1153 · 38 U.S.C. § 1154 · 38 U.S.C. § 5107 · 38 U.S.C. § 7252 · 38 U.S.C. § 7261
Relies on Caluza v. Brown · John G. Alamilla, Sr. v. General Accounting Office · Espiritu v. Derwinski · Robinette v. Brown · Epps v. Gober
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Aggravation may not be conceded where the disability underwent no increase in severity during service on the basis of all the evidence of record pertaining to the manifestations of the disability prior to, during, and subsequent to service.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Principi“[t]emporary or intermittent flare-ups during service of a preexisting injury or disease are not sufficient to be considered 'aggravation in service'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“clear and convincing [sic] evidence . . . demonstrate[s] . . . that the appellant sustained no permanent increase in disability during service”
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.