Wanner v. Principi’s Empirical Analysis
370 F.3d 1124 · 2004
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Smith v. Nicholson (2006), Ellis C. Smith v. R. James Nicholson (2005)
4 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 Johnson v. Robison · Bailey v. West · Williams v. Principi · Bustos v. West · Van Wersch v. Department of Health & Human Services
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) Review in the Court shall be on the record of proceedings before the Secretary and the Board. The extent of the review shall be limited to the scope provided in section 7261 of this title. The Court may not review the schedule of ratings for disabilities adopted under section 1155 of this title or any action of the Secretary in adopting or revising that schedule.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Senate Report 100-418 explains: “The Committee bill contains one restriction on the scope of review of VA rules and regulations: A court would not be per mitted to direct or otherwise order that any part of the disability rating schedule issued or adopted by the Administrator be modified.” ... A report from the House of Representatives reflects a similar understanding, explaining that, in response to “apprehension ... that the VA schedule for rating disabilities ... would be destroyed by piecemeal review of individual rating classifications,” the bill “has expressly precluded review of the schedule. ...” H.R. Rep. 100-963 at 28. The language in the legislative history is not limited to the percentages of the disability ratings ... but matches the statutes in broadly precluding judicial review of the contents of the disability rating schedule in toto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“For disability resulting from personal injury suffered or disease contracted in line of duty, or for aggravation of a preexisting injury suffered or disease contracted in line of duty, in the active military, naval, or air service, during a period of war, the United States will pay to any veteran thus disabled and who was discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable from the period of service in which said injury or disease was incurred, or preexisting injury or disease was aggravated, compensation as provided in this subchapter, but no compensation shall be paid if the disability is a result of the person’s own wilful misconduct or abuse of alcohol or drugs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.