Stillwell v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

46 F.3d 1111 · 1995

Citation profile

cited by 27 later decisions

February 2015

most recently cited

How this case has been cited

Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Helfer v. West (1999), Dyment v. Principi (2002)

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

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 38 U.S.C. § 101 (Agent Orange Act of 1991) · 38 U.S.C. § 7252 · 38 U.S.C. § 7292 · 5 U.S.C. § 504 (Equal Access to Justice Act)

Relies on Livingston v. Derwinski · Chiu v. United States · Stillwell v. Brown · Gregory 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“the validity of any statute or regulation . . . or any interpretation thereof . . . that was relied on by the [Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims] in making [its] decision.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Helfer v. West · Bowey v. West
“[T]he VA must demonstrate the reasonableness, in law and fact, of the position of the VA in a matter before the Court, and of the action or failure to act by the VA in a matter before the VA, based upon the totality of the circumstances, including merits, conduct, reasons given, and consistency with judicial precedent and VA policy with respect to such position, and action or failure to act, as reflected in the record on appeal and the filings of the parties before the Court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Uttieri v. Brown · Curtis v. Brown
“necessarily involves the determination of facts and the application of the substantially justified standard of the EAJA to those facts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Clemmons v. West · Bowey v. West

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.