AB v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2017
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. § 5101 · 38 U.S.C. § 7105 · 38 U.S.C. § 7251
Relies on Christianson v. Colt Industries Operating Corp. · Prenzler v. Derwinski · Hamilton v. Brown · Travelstead v. Derwinski · Phillips v. General Services Administration
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the instant case, the veteran’s February 1988 NOD placed on appeal the issue of his entitlement to a rating higher than 10% for his service-connected PTSD. Pursuant to that appeal, the BVA was required to consider his entitlement with respect to all available disability ratings for PTSD. See 38 C.F.R. § 3.103 (a); Shoemaker [v. Derwinski, 3 Vet.App. 248, 253 (1992) ]. VA’s schedule for rating disabilities provides for 0%, 10%, 30%, 50%, 70%, and 100% ratings for PTSD. 38 C.F.R. § 4.132 , Diagnostic Code 9411 (1992). Therefore, the September 1988 RO decision awarding an increase from 10% to 30% in the veteran’s PTSD rating did not fully resolve the administrative claim on appeal to the Board. Rather, the appeal initiated by the February 1988 NOD remained pending for disposition by the BVA as to the unresolved question of entitlement to a rating higher than 30%.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kirwin v. Brown
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.