Jandreau v. Nicholson’s Empirical Analysis
492 F.3d 1372 · 2007
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Fagan v. Shinseki (2009), Pitney Bowes Government Solutions, Inc. v. United States (2010)
10 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
Applies 38 U.S.C. § 1154 · 38 U.S.C. § 5107 · 38 U.S.C. § 7292
Relies on Brewer v. Quaker State Oil Refining Corp. · Aramburu v. Boeing Co. · Residential Funding Corporation v. Degeorge Financial Corp., Degeorge Home Alliance, Inc. And Degeorge Capital Corp · Jackson v. Harvard University · Vick v. Texas Employment Commission
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the party having control over the evidence had an obligation to preserve it at the time it was destroyed; (2) the records were destroyed with a culpable state of mind; and (3) the destroyed evidence was relevant to the party’s claim or defense such that a reasonable trier of fact could find that it would support the claim or defense.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'competent medical evidence . . . [when] the determinative issue involves either medical etiology or a medical diagnosis.'”
3 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
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.