Hatlestad v. Derwinski’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 38 U.S.C. § 1110 · 38 U.S.C. § 1155 · 38 U.S.C. § 501 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7252
Relies on Gilbert v. Derwinski · Colvin v. Derwinski · Murphy v. Derwinski · Hatlestad v. Derwinski · Rogozinski 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.
“the Board should henceforth include in its decisions quotations from medical treatises (rather than bare citations), and such quotations should be of sufficient length so that their context (both within the treatise in question and within the body of relevant medical literature) is able to be determined. Under this procedure, the Board would be free to draw guidance from a great diversity of recognized medical treatises, rather than, for example, only those that may be readily available to this Court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Houston v. Brown · Thurber v. Brown
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.