Bustos v. West’s Empirical Analysis
179 F.3d 1378 · 1999
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Cook v. Principi (2002), Disabled American Veterans v. Gober (2000)
5 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 Russell v. Principi · Fugo v. Brown · Donovan 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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Either the correct facts, as they were known at the time, were not before the adjudicator or the statutory or regulatory provisions extant at the time were incorrectly applied.... [CUE is] the sort of error which, had it not been made, would have manifestly changed the outcome ... [, an error that is] undebatable, so that it can be said that reasonable minds could only conclude that the original decision was fatally flawed at the time it was made.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“review and decide any challenge to the validity of any statute or regulation or any interpretation thereof brought under [section 7292], and to interpret constitutional and statutory provisions, to the extent presented and necessary to a decision.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hayre v. West · Jones v. West“[T]o prove the existence of CUE as set forth in § 3.105(a), the claimant must show that an outcome-determinative error occurred.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hayre v. West · Yates 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.