Sears v. Principi’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 38 U.S.C. § 5108 · 38 U.S.C. § 5110 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7105 · 38 U.S.C. § 7252 · 38 U.S.C. § 7261
Relies on Hatlestad v. Derwinski · Butts v. Brown · Thompson v. Derwinski · Suttmann v. Brown · Barnett 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress expressly specified that a claim reopened after final disallowance is distinct from the original claim that came before it,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sears v. Principi“reopened claim [is] a `new claim' for purposes of the effective-date language of 38 C.F.R. § 3.400(q)(1)(ii).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sears v. Principi“an original claim, a claim reopened after final adjudication, or a claim for increase.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sears v. Principi
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.