Hayes v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

1993

Citation profile

cited by 27 later decisions

November 2016

most recently cited

2 federal appellate ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Butts v. Brown (1993), Sabonis v. Brown (1994)

2 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 38 U.S.C. § 1131 · 38 U.S.C. § 1154 · 38 U.S.C. § 5107 · 38 U.S.C. § 7252 · 38 U.S.C. § 7261

Relies on Gilbert v. Derwinski · Colvin v. Derwinski · Murphy v. Derwinski · Karnas v. Derwinski · Fugere 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“Even where there is a lack of official records to corroborate that an injury or disease was incurred or aggravated during service (including a period of combat), the [Secretary] is required to accept as sufficient proof of service connection satisfactory lay or other evidence that an injury or disease was incurred or aggravated during such period of service, if the evidence is consistent with the circumstances, conditions, or hardships of such service.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Ashley v. Brown
“'[b]ecause there is a plausible basis in the record for the [Board's] decision that the preponderance of the evidence was against the appellant's claim, the benefit of the doubt doctrine does not apply.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Ortiz v. Principi

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.