Harder v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably Ardison v. Brown (1994), Hicks v. Brown (1995)
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. § 5108 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7252 · 38 U.S.C. § 7261
Relies on Gilbert v. Derwinski · Colvin v. Derwinski · Murphy v. Derwinski · Manio 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“which is proximately due to or the result of a service-connected disease or injury.... When service connection is thus established for a secondary condition, the secondary condition shall be considered a part of the original condition.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Kirwin v. Brown · Flynn 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.