Reonal v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably McLendon v. Nicholson (2006), Godfrey 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. § 107 · 38 U.S.C. § 1502 · 38 U.S.C. § 1521 · 38 U.S.C. § 5108 · 38 U.S.C. § 7252 · 38 U.S.C. § 7261
Relies on Gilbert v. Derwinski · Colvin v. Derwinski · Masors v. Derwinski · Thompson v. Derwinski · Suttmann v. Brown
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The issue here is the basis upon which [the doctor’s] opinion [that appellant’s disability was service-connected] was made. [The doctor] relied upon appellant’s account of his medical history and service background, recitations which had already been rejected by the [earlier] RO decision. An opinion based upon an inaccurate factual premise has no probative value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kightly v. Brown“opinion based upon an inaccurate factual premise has no probative value”
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.