Allen v. Principi’s Empirical Analysis
237 F.3d 1368 · 2001
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Williams v. Principi (2002), Adams v. Principi (2001)
6 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
Relies on Blum v. Stenson · Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Risjord · Traynor v. Turnage · Prenzler v. Derwinski · Travelstead 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“completely precludes Allen from using his alcohol abuse disability to increase his rating level,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“disability is a result of the veteran's own willful misconduct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]nlike Winn ... Allen cannot `win' on remand, because no matter what facts the Board finds on the issue of secondary service-connection, Allen cannot [and would not] rely on his alcohol abuse disability to increase his rating level.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Myore 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.