Leonard v. West’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 38 U.S.C. § 5104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7266
Relies on McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. · Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs · Baldwin County Welcome Center v. Brown · Walters v. National Assn. of Radiation Survivors · Cummings 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the appellant's reliance on VA was not the cause of the late filing”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“at best a garden variety claim of excusable neglect”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Leonard v. Gober
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.