Dye v. Mansfield’s Empirical Analysis
504 F.3d 1289 · 2007
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 2020
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 38 U.S.C. § 105 · 38 U.S.C. § 1111 · 38 U.S.C. § 1112 · 38 U.S.C. § 7292
Relies on Shedden v. Principi
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Wjhile section 105(a) establishes a presumption that the disease or injury incurred during active duty is service-connected, the veteran seeking compensation must still show the existence of a present disability and that there is a causal relationship between the present disability and the injury, disease, or aggravation of a preexisting injury or disease incurred during active duty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Holton v. Shinseki“where clear and unmistakable evidence demonstrates that the injury or disease existed before acceptance and enrollment and was not aggravated by such service.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'personal injury suffered or disease contracted in line of duty'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.