Donovan v. West’s Empirical Analysis
158 F.3d 1377 · 1998
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Cook v. Principi (2002), Disabled American Veterans v. Gober (2000)
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 · Russian River Watershed Protection Committee v. City of Santa Rosa · 10 Vet. App. 404 - Donovan v. Gober · Dittrich 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]or the purpose of authorizing benefits, the rating or other adjudicative decision which constitutes a reversal of a prior decision on the grounds of clear and unmistakable error has the same effect as if the corrected decision had been made on the date of the reversed decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Bustos v. West · Andre v. Principi“'denying service connection was not limited to the question of whether a claim should be reopened [i.e., a collateral attack], but extended to an analysis of the merits of the underlying question of service connection [i.e., a direct appeal of the original claim].'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. West · Jones v. West“if the [RO] were now to attempt to decide that question de novo, it would be reviewing a decision of the appellate tribunal that customarily reviews decision of the regional office.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Jones v. West · Jones 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.