Fugo v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably Cook v. Principi (2002), Disabled American Veterans v. Gober (2000)
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
Relies on Henderson v. Kibbe · Russell v. Principi · Hatlestad v. Derwinski · Mata v. Principi · Sullivan v. Blackburn
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as to why the result would have been manifestly different but for the alleged error.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[E]ven where the premise of error is accepted, if it is not absolutely clear that a different result would have ensued, the error complained of cannot be, ipso facto, clear and unmistakable error.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If a claimant-appellant wishes to reasonably raise CUE there must be some degree of specificity as to what the alleged error is and, unless it is the kind of error ... that, if true, would be CUE on its face, persuasive reasons must be given as to why the result would have been manifestly different but for the alleged error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scott 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.