Suttmann v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Caluza v. Brown (1995), Allday v. Brown (1995)
1 state decisions
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. § 1112 · 38 U.S.C. § 501 · 38 U.S.C. § 503 · 38 U.S.C. § 5103 · 38 U.S.C. § 5107 · 38 U.S.C. § 5108 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7105
Relies on Bolling v. Sharpe · Gilbert v. Derwinski · Fletcher v. Derwinski · Murphy v. Derwinski · Manio v. Derwinski
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“applies to claims for service connection for the [former prisoner of war (POW)] ... diseases listed in 38 U.S.C.n § 1112(b) and 38 C.F.R. § 3.309 (c) ... [, which provide that] any listed ... disease becoming manifest to a degree of 10% or more in a former POW at any time after separation from service”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sears v. Principi“[a]n analogous rating . . . may be assigned only where the service-connected condition is 'unlisted.'”
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.