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← 13 VETAPP 213 - Sondel v. West

Sondel v. West’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
March 2016
most recently cited

Relationships

Applies 38 U.S.C. § 1110 · 38 U.S.C. § 5101 · 38 U.S.C. § 5108 · 38 U.S.C. § 5109A · 38 U.S.C. § 5110 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7252 · 38 U.S.C. § 7261

Relies on Bigelow v. Virginia · Russell v. Principi · Allday v. Brown · Consolidated Aluminum Corporation v. Foseco International Limited · Kutscherousky 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “CUE may be based on a showing 'that there was no evidence before the RO that could have supported denial of the claim on the merits; that is, [that] all of the evidence militated in support of the claim'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “to raise CUE there must be some degree of specificity as to what the alleged error is and . . . persuasive reasons must be given as to why the result would have been manifestly different”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “that the Secretary must have intended the revised presumption of aggravation . . . to be at least as beneficial . . . as the presumption applicable to peacetime veterans.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.