Mayfield v. Nicholson’s Empirical Analysis
499 F.3d 1317 · 2007
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2024
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. § 1295 · 38 U.S.C. § 5103 · 38 U.S.C. § 5104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7292
Relies on Sanders v. Nicholson · Prenzler v. Derwinski · Mayfield v. Nicholson · Larry A. Pelegrini v. Anthony J. Principi · Kessel v. West
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“38 C.F.R. § 3.159 (b)(1) When VA receives a complete or substantially complete application for benefits, it will notify the claimant of any information and medical or lay evidence that is necessary to substantiate the claim. VA will inform the claimant which information and evidence, if any, that the claimant is to provide to VA and which information and evidence, if any, that VA will attempt to obtain on behalf of the claimant. VA will also request that the claimant provide any evidence in the claimant’s possession that pertains to the claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. Mansfield“(A) arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law; (B) contrary to constitutional right, power, privilege, or immunity; (C) in excess of statutory jurisdiction, authority, or limitations, or in violation of a statutory right; or (D) without observance of procedure required by law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Terio v. Peake
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.