Willis v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2014
1 district ·
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. § 501 · 38 U.S.C. § 503 · 38 U.S.C. § 5502 · 38 U.S.C. § 7252
Relies on Darrow 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the concurrent issue of whether particular VA appointments of fiduciaries are reviewable by this Court . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In short, the use of the word 'may' makes [certain regulation-authorized action] discretionary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“as that question was not for Board decision.”
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.