Bell v. Derwinski’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Disabled American Veterans v. Gober (2000), Gabrielson v. Brown (1994)
2 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. § 7252
Relies on Fletcher v. Derwinski · Murincsak v. Derwinski · Rogozinski v. Derwinski · Rollins 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“documents proffered by the appellant [that] are within the Secretary's control and could reasonably be expected to be a part of the record 'before the Secretary and the Board.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“those items considered by the Board in arriving at its decision,”
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.