Sabonis v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably Robinson v. Mansfield (2008), Link 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 10 U.S.C. § 1174 · 10 U.S.C. § 687 · 38 U.S.C. § 5107 · 38 U.S.C. § 5108 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7252 · 38 U.S.C. § 7261 · 38 U.S.C. § 7266
Relies on Griffin v. Oceanic Contractors, Inc. · Gardner v. Brown · Gardner v. Derwinski · Fugo v. Brown · Tirpak 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the law and not the evidence is dispositive.”
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.