Dyment v. West’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 38 U.S.C. § 1310 · 38 U.S.C. § 303 · 38 U.S.C. § 5107 · 38 U.S.C. § 7252
Relies on Murphy v. Derwinski · Allday v. Brown · 11 Vet. App. 268 - Stegall v. West · Hayre v. West · Orengo Caraballo v. Reich
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“singly or jointly with some other condition, was the immediate or underlying cause of death or was etiologically related thereto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“aided or lent assistance to the production of death.”
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.