Stanley v. Principi’s Empirical Analysis
283 F.3d 1350 · 2002
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2024
5 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 Catlin v. United States · Williams v. Principi · Hayre v. West · Roberson v. Principi · Howard v. Gober
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] fee may not be charged, allowed, or paid for services of agents and attorneys with respect to services provided before the date on which the Board of Veterans’ Appeals first makes a final decision in the case. Such a fee may be charged, allowed, or paid in the case of services provided after such date only if an agent or attorney is retained with respect to such case before the end of the one-year period beginning on that date.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“VA clearly concluded that the definition of final decision on an issue must be liberal enough to allow attorneys' fees in reopening proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the perceived threat that agents or attorneys would charge excessive fees for their services”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jaquay 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.