Tobler v. Derwinski’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Kutscherousky v. West (1999), Bethea v. Derwinski (1992)
1 district ·
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 26 U.S.C. § 7481 · 38 U.S.C. § 7252 · 38 U.S.C. § 7261 · 38 U.S.C. § 7267 · 38 U.S.C. § 7291 · 38 U.S.C. § 7292
Relies on William Marbury v. James Madison · Cruz v. Hauck · Parham v. Cortese · Golsen v. Commissioner · Golsen v. Commissioner
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a decision of this Court, unless or until overturned by this Court en banc, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, or the Supreme Court, is a decision of the Court on the date it is issued; any rulings, interpretations, or conclusions of law contained in such a decision are authoritative and binding as of the date the decision is issued and are to be considered and, when applicable, are to be followed by VA agencies of original jurisdiction, the Board of Veterans’ Appeals, and the Secretary in adjudicating and resolving claims.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“appeal of a decision does suspend the finality of any judgment with respect to the parties to that case until the appeal is resolved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Padgett v. Nicholson
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.