Hensley v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2016
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. § 1110 · 38 U.S.C. § 1113 · 38 U.S.C. § 1153 · 38 U.S.C. § 1155 · 38 U.S.C. § 5107 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7261
Relies on Gilbert v. Derwinski · Colvin v. Derwinski · Fletcher v. Derwinski · Quarles v. Derwinski · Masors 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen audiometric test results at a veteran’s separation from service do not meet the regulatory requirements for establishing a “disability” at that time, he or she may nevertheless establish service connection for a current hearing disability by submitting evidence that the current disability is causally related to service.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Heuer v. Brown
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.