Wood v. Peake’s Empirical Analysis
520 F.3d 1345 · 2008
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 2023
4 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. § 2111 · 38 U.S.C. § 1310 · 38 U.S.C. § 5103A · 38 U.S.C. § 5108 · 38 U.S.C. § 7292
Relies on Maggitt v. West · Szemraj v. Principi · Jaquay v. Principi · Santana-Venegas v. Principi · Bailey 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and other benefits administered by the Secretary. Section 5103A(a) provides that: (1) The Secretary shall make reasonable efforts to assist a claimant in obtaining evidence necessary to substantiate the claimant's claim for a benefit under a law administered by the Secretary. (2) The Secretary is not required to provide assistance to a claimant under this section if no reasonable possibility exists that such assistance would aid in substantiating the claim. 38 U.S.C. 5103A(a)(1, 2) (emphasis added). This general language contrasts starkly with the more specific”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a monthly payment made by the Department of Veterans Affairs to a veteran because of service-connected disability . . . . if the veteran is disabled as the result of a personal injury or disease (including 6 aggravation of a condition existing prior to service) while in active service if the injury or disease was incurred or aggravated in line of duty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hile [section] 5103A(a) applies to any 'benefit under a law administered by the Secretary' and thus encompasses [dependency and indemnity compensation] claims, § 5103A(d) only applies to 'claim[s] for disability compensation,' which does not include [dependency and indemnity compensation] claims.”
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.