Ardison v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Kay v. Principi (2002), 11 Vet. App. 268 - Stegall v. West (1998)
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. § 5107 · 38 U.S.C. § 7252 · 38 U.S.C. § 7261
Relies on Camp v. Pitts · Florida Power & Light Co. v. Lorion · Gilbert v. Derwinski · Frankel v. Derwinski · Murphy v. Derwinski
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'evaluation of the claimed disability will be a fully informed one.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.