Wilson v. Derwinski’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Robinette v. Brown (1995), Suttmann v. Brown (1993)
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. § 1101 · 38 U.S.C. § 1110 · 38 U.S.C. § 5107 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7261
Relies on Gilbert v. Derwinski · Murphy v. Derwinski · Green v. Derwinski · Littke v. Derwinski · Hatlestad v. Derwinski
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“takes into account the records of prior medical treatment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.