Collaro v. West’s Empirical Analysis
136 F.3d 1304 · 1998
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Forshey v. Principi (2002), Bailey v. West (1998)
4 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 Smith v. Brown · Hamilton v. Brown · Wick v. Brown · Blitz v. Donovan
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress has passed statutes and the agency regulations to assist veterans in establishing facts sufficient to support well-grounded claims and to give them every benefit that can be supported in law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a nonadversarial, ex parte, paternalistic system for adjudicating veterans' claims,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Disagreement between the Agency and the veteran about one or more of these elements may create a dispute which is resolved by an Agency decision as to whether the veteran does or does not have legal entitlement to a particular benefit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boyer v. West
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.