Epps v. Gober’s Empirical Analysis
126 F.3d 1464 · 1997
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Hensley v. West (2000), Littlejohn v. United States (2003)
7 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
Relies on Ingersoll-Rand Co. v. McClendon · Lewis v. Continental Bank Corp. · Cardinal Chemical Company v. Morton International Inc · Smith 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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a medical diagnosis of a current disability; (2) medical, or in certain circumstances, lay evidence of in-service occurrence or aggravation of a disease or injury; and (3) medical evidence of a nexus between an in-service disease or injury and the current disability.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Secretary shall assist such a claimant in developing the facts pertinent to the claim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schroeder v. West · Hensley v. West“all evidence and material of record in a case”
2 later decisions 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.