Zuspann v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
60 F.3d 1156 · 1995
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Thomas v. Principi (2005), Whitley v. Hunt (1998)
19 federal appellate · 6 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. § 511 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7251 · 38 U.S.C. § 7252 · 38 U.S.C. § 7292
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Federal Deposit Insurance v. Meyer · Davis v. Passman · Carlson v. Green · Bush v. Lucas
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are free to uphold the district court's judgment on any basis that is supported by the record.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“), whose ruling becomes the final decision of the Secretary. 38 U.S.C. § 7104(a). Decisions of the Board may then be reviewed exclusively by the United States Court of Veterans Appeals, an Article I court established by the VJRA. 5 38 U.S.C. §§ 7251, 7252(a), 7266(a). Decisions of the Court of Veterans Appeals are in turn appealable solely to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 38 U.S.C. § 7292(a), which has”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the administrative process created by Congress provides for a comprehensive review of veterans' benefits disputes. Further, Congress has explicitly precluded judicial review of veterans' benefits disputes, which suggests that Congress' failure to create a remedy against individual VA employees was not an oversight.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. Principi
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.