Sweitzer v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2013
1 federal appellate ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 38 U.S.C. § 1151 · 38 U.S.C. § 7252
Relies on Gardner v. Derwinski · Talley 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Veterans Court determined that because the injury did not result from the examination itself, but rather from an incident that occurred before the process of reporting for the examination, the injury did not result from”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. Nicholson“disabilities that are merely coincidental with the receipt of VA treatment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. Nicholson
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.