Thurber v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Allday v. Brown (1995), Robinette v. Brown (1995)
3 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. § 501 · 38 U.S.C. § 5104 · 38 U.S.C. § 5107 · 38 U.S.C. § 5109 · 38 U.S.C. § 5701 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7105 · 38 U.S.C. § 7105A
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Mathews v. Eldridge · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Walters v. National Assn. of Radiation Survivors
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“before the BVA relies, in rendering a decision on a claim, on any evidence developed or obtained by it subsequent to the issuance of the most recent [Statement of the Case] or [Supplemental Statement of the Case] with respect to such claim, the BVA must provide a claimant with reasonable notice of such evidence and of the reliance proposed to be placed on it, and a reasonable opportunity for the claimant to respond to it.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“The entire thrust of the VA’s nonadver-sarial claims system is predicated upon a structure which provides for notice and an opportunity to be heard at virtually every step in the process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Futrell v. Brown“in addition to that available within the Department [of Veterans Affairs]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.