Bethea v. Derwinski’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Kutscherousky v. West (1999), Douglas v. Derwinski (1992)
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. § 5107 · 38 U.S.C. § 7267 · 38 U.S.C. § 7292
Relies on McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. · Data Disc, Inc. v. Systems Technology Associates, Inc. · Marine Midland Bank, N.A. v. Miller · Frankel v. Derwinski · Johnston v. Ivac Corp.
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here there is an earlier panel . . . opinion, we apply a rule that in a subsequent case, a panel or single judge may not render a decision which conflicts materially with such earlier panel”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ozer 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.