Buchanan v. Nicholson’s Empirical Analysis
451 F.3d 1331 · 2006
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Jandreau v. Nicholson (2007), Boggs v. Peake (2008)
16 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 Prenzler v. Derwinski · 19 Vet. App. 453 - Mitchell E. Sims v. R. James Nicholson
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is obligated to, and fully justified in, determining whether lay evidence is credible in and of itself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“make clear that competent lay evidence can be sufficient in and of itself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Secretary shall consider all information and lay and medical evidence of record in a case before the Secretary with respect to benefits under laws administered by the Secretary. When there is an approximate balance of positive and negative evidence regarding any issue material to the determination of a matter, the Secretary shall give the benefit of the doubt to the claimant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. King v. Shinseki
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.