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Leonard v. Nicholson’s Empirical Analysis

405 F.3d 1333 · 2005

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
May 2011
most recently cited

1 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Relies on Cook v. Principi · Bustos v. West · D'Amico v. West · Andrews v. Principi · Sears 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[A]bsent a showing of CUE, [the appellant] cannot receive disability payments for a time frame earlier than the application date of his claim to reopen, even with new evidence supporting an earlier disability date.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “Leonard’s request for an earlier effective date [wa]s a ‘claim’ under [38 U.S.C.] § 5110(a).” Id. at 1336. Because section 5110(a) provides that”
    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.