Sears v. Principi’s Empirical Analysis
349 F.3d 1326 · 2003
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2021 · most notably Sursely v. Peake (2009), Nielson v. Shinseki (2010)
8 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 Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Brown v. Gardner · Disabled American Veterans v. Gober · Paul Contreras and Arnoldus Janssen v. United States Paul Contreras and Arnoldus Janssen
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unless specifically provided otherwise in this chapter, the effective date of an award based on ... a claim reopened after final adjudication ... shall be fixed in accordance with the facts found, but shall not be earlier than the date of receipt of application therefor.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f new and material evidence is presented or secured with respect to a claim which has been disallowed ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jackson 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.