Hodge v. West’s Empirical Analysis
155 F.3d 1356 · 1998
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 169 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Bailey v. West (1998), Maggitt v. West (2000)
28 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
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 Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Brown v. Gardner · Fishgold v. Sullivan Drydock & Repair Corp. · Colvin v. Derwinski · Coffy v. Republic Steel Corp.
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 169 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the character of the veterans' benefits statutes is strongly and uniquely pro-claimant.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“evidence not previously submitted to agency decisionmakers which bears directly and substantially upon the specific matter under consideration, which is neither cumulative or redundant, and which by itself or in connection with evidence previously assembled is so significant that it must be considered in order to fairly decide the merits of the claim.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to fully and sympathetically develop the veteran's claim to its optimum before deciding it on the merits.”
5 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.