MacWhorter v. Derwinski’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2016
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
Applies 38 U.S.C. § 5121 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7263 · 38 U.S.C. § 7264
Relies on Gilbert v. Derwinski · Holt v. Sarver · Littke v. Derwinski · Yeldell v. Tutt · Meadows v. Hickman
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purposes of filing a brief in a judicial appeal are to state the position of the party from the point of view of an advocate — advocacy being a prime ingredient of the appeal — and to direct the Court to the relevant facts and the law; that is, the briefs should specifically define the character of the parties’ arguments, make pertinent references to the record and transcript, if any, and assist the Court in resolving the issues ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lemmons v. Derwinski
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.