Zarycki v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
July 1999
most recently cited
Relationships
Applies 38 U.S.C. § 1154 · 38 U.S.C. § 5107 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7252
Relies on Gilbert v. Derwinski · Fletcher v. Derwinski · Murphy v. Derwinski · Grottveit v. Brown · Littke 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Service connection for post-traumatic stress disorder requires medical evidence establishing a clear diagnosis of the condition, credible supporting evidence that the claimed inservice stressor actually occurred, and a link, established by medical evidence, between current symptomatology and the claimed inservice stressor. If the claimed stressor is related to combat, service department evidence that the veteran engaged in combat or that the veteran was awarded the Purple Heart, Combat Infantryman Badge, or similar combat citation will be accepted, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, as conclusive evidence of the claimed inservice stressor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Doran 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.