Owens v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably 23 Vet. App. 1 - William N. Clemons v. Eric K. Shinseki (2009), Struck v. Brown (1996)
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. § 7252 · 38 U.S.C. § 7261
Relies on Gilbert v. Derwinski · Quarles v. Derwinski · EF v. Derwinski · Suttmann v. Brown · Myers 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The BVA was not bound to accept the appellant’s uncorroborated testimony that teeth numbered 3, 4, 15, and 18 were removed in service, nor was it bound to accept the opinions of Drs. Ward and Cherry that were based on the appellant’s recitation of his dental history. See Wood v. Derwinski, 1 Vet.App. 190, 192 (1991); Wilson v. Derwinski, 2 Vet.App. [614], 618 (1992).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Godfrey 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.