Camarena v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2022
2 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. § 801 (Military Justice Act of 1968) · 10 U.S.C. § 815 · 38 U.S.C. § 101 (Agent Orange Act of 1991) · 38 U.S.C. § 501
Relies on Zemel v. Rusk · United States v. Hohri · National Labor Relations Board v. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. · Gilbert v. Derwinski · Russell v. Principi
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for precluding veteran status, it could easily have done so by simply and directly stating that a veteran is anyone other than a person who has received a sentence of dishonorable discharge under the UCMJ. They did not do so, but rather used the much more oblique phrase noted above. Moreover, there is simply nothing in this specific statute, nor in the overall statutory scheme encompassed by either title 38 of the U.S. Code (Veteran's Benefits) or title 10 (Armed Services), that would suggest that the definition of”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Camarena v. Brown“The appellant did serve on active duty with the United States Army. However, during his service he was convicted by a summary court-martial for two offenses, received nonjudicial punishment under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) (10 U.S.C. Sec. 815) for another offense, and was ultimately expelled from the service as a consequence of a special court-martial that adjudged a bad conduct discharge for three other offenses. His subsequent efforts to have this discharge”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Camarena v. Brown“That means that under this provision the [VA], if a man's service has been dishonorable, if he has been convicted of larceny or any other crime ... the VA will have some discretion with respect to regarding the discharge as dishonorable. 21 90 Cong.Rec. 3076, 3077 (1944) (emphasis added). Congress clearly intended that the phrase”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Camarena 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.