McGee v. Peake’s Empirical Analysis
511 F.3d 1352 · 2008
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Ileto v. Glock, Inc. (2009), Comer v. Peake (2009)
7 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 10 U.S.C. § 1202 · 10 U.S.C. § 1218 · 38 U.S.C. § 5103 · 38 U.S.C. § 5103A · 38 U.S.C. § 5107 · 38 U.S.C. § 5110 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7292
Relies on Alexander v. Sandoval · Michael Wayne Williams v. John Taylor Warden · Brown v. Gardner · United States v. Rodgers · Forshey 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because of the paternalistic nature of the proceedings, the [BVA], like the [Regional Office], is required to fully and sympathetically develop the veteran's claim to its optimum before deciding it on the merits.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress requires the VA to obtain '[t]he claimant's service medical records and, if the claimant has furnished the Secretary information sufficient to locate such records, other relevant records pertaining to the claimant's active military, 12 naval, or air service that are held or maintained by a governmental entity.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“all evidence and material of record and applicable provisions of law and regulation,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robinson v. O'Rourke
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.