Layno v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Caluza v. Brown (1995), Edenfield v. Brown (1995)
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. § 7101 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7261
Relies on Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. v. Decker · Visser v. Packer Engineering Associates, Inc. · Murphy v. Derwinski · Espiritu 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Competency, however, must be distinguished from weight and credibility. The former is a legal concept determining whether testimony may be heard and considered by the trier of fact, while the latter is a factual determination going to the probative value of the evidence to be made after the evidence has been admitted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rucker 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.