Mayfield v. Nicholson’s Empirical Analysis
444 F.3d 1328 · 2006
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Sanders v. Nicholson (2007), Simmons v. Nicholson (2007)
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Hensley v. West · Conway v. Principi · Robinette v. Brown
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not satisfied by various post-decisional communications from which a claimant might have been able to infer what evidence the VA found lacking in the claimant's presentation.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]pon receipt of a complete or substantially complete application”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ensure that the claimant's case is presented to the initial decisionmaker with whatever support is available, and to ensure that the claimant understands what evidence will be obtained by . . . VA and what evidence must be provided by the claimant.”
4 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.