Servello v. Derwinski’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Hamilton v. Brown (1993), Vda de Landicho v. Brown (1994)
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. § 5110 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7252
Relies on Gilbert v. Derwinski · Fletcher v. Derwinski · Quarles v. Derwinski · Douglas v. Derwinski · Webster 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The effective date of an award of increased compensation shall be the earliest date as of which it is ascertainable that an increase in disability has occurred, if application is received within one year from such date.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not a cognizable claim for effective-date purposes”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burris v. Wilkie
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.