Ledford v. West’s Empirical Analysis
136 F.3d 776 · 1998
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably Maggitt v. West (2000), Andre v. Principi (2002)
1 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 Bowen v. City of New York · Aircraft & Diesel Equipment Corp. v. Hirsch · Parisi v. Davidson · Hamilton 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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“power to affirm, modify, or reverse a decision of the Board or to remand the matter as appropriate,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“premised on and defined by the Board's decision concerning the matter being appealed.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Ledford had to have presented an NOD specifically challenging the 1981 determination in order to vest jurisdiction in the [Veterans Court] over that determination. While his legal reasoning supporting such a challenge need not appear in the NOD, ... an NOD must have indicated disagreement with a specific determination.”
3 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.