Hyson v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

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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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In the normal course of events, it is the burden of the veteran to keep the VA apprised of his whereabouts. If he does not do so, there is no burden on the part of the VA to turn up heaven and earth to find him. It is only where a file discloses other possible and plausible addresses that an attempt should be made to locate him at the alternate known address before finding abandonment of a previously adjudicated benefit”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Connelly v. Brown