Douglas v. Derwinski’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Caluza v. Brown (1995), Quarles v. Derwinski (1992)
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. § 1110 · 38 U.S.C. § 5106 · 38 U.S.C. § 5107 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7105 · 38 U.S.C. § 7261
Relies on United States v. American Trucking Associations · Griffin v. Oceanic Contractors, Inc. · Demarest v. Manspeaker · Karnas v. Derwinski · Schafrath 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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]owhere do the statutory provisions relating to the claimant’s filing a “formal appeal” in order to perfect an appeal to the BVA (initiated by the filing of a[n NOD] with a[n RO] decision, followed by a[n SOC issued] by a[n RO]) provide that only legal issues raised in the formal appeal, and evidence pertinent to those issues, must be considered by the Board.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he plain language of the statutory and regulatory provisions at issue demonstrates that Congress and VA have 'envisioned' a [Board] bound by the regulations that bind the entire Department.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“may have overlooked and which would be of advantage to the claimant's position.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.