Gardner v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
5 F.3d 1456 · 1993
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 154 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Brown v. Gardner (1994), Forshey v. Principi (2002)
11 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. § 1101 · 38 U.S.C. § 1151 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7261 · 38 U.S.C. § 7292 · 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Pierce v. Underwood · Tcherepnin v. Knight · Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Curran · West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. v. Casey
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 154 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'If the intent of Congress is clear, that is the end of the matter'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as the result of hospitalization, medical or surgical treatment, or the pursuit of a course of vocational rehabilitation”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must cause the injury or the aggravation of injury. And willful misconduct of the veteran may not be a cause of the injury or aggravation.”
3 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.