Mapu v. Nicholson’s Empirical Analysis
397 F.3d 1375 · 2005
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Bove v. Shinseki (2011), Sneed v. Shinseki (2013)
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
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 Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs · Bailey v. West · Nunnally v. MacCausland · Jaquay v. Principi · Barrett v. Principi
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is limited to a small and closed set of factual patterns and that equitable tolling is precluded if a veteran's case does not fall within those patterns,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the mate-rial facts are not in dispute and the adoption of a particular legal standard would dictate the outcome of the equitable tolling claim, this court has treated the question of the availability of equitable tolling as a matter of law that we are authorized by statute to address.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]quitable tolling is not 'limited to a small and closed set of factual patterns' " and have historically "rejected the approach of looking to whether a particular case falls within the facts specifically identified in Irwin or one of our prior cases.”
2 later decisions 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.