Allen v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Robinette v. Brown (1995), Boyer v. West (2000)
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 38 U.S.C. § 101 (Agent Orange Act of 1991) · 38 U.S.C. § 1101 · 38 U.S.C. § 1110 · 38 U.S.C. § 1131 · 38 U.S.C. § 1153 · 38 U.S.C. § 1155 · 38 U.S.C. § 1701 (Faster Care for Veterans Act of 2016) · 38 U.S.C. § 1710
Relies on United Sav. Assn. of Tex. v. Timbers of Inwood Forest Associates, Ltd. · Gregory Lumber Co. v. United States · Brown v. Gardner · Baltimore Contractors, Inc. v. Bodinger · Atlantic Cleaners & Dyers, Inc. v. United States
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'disability' as used in § 1110 refers to impairment of earning capacity, and that such definition mandates that any additional impairment of earning capacity resulting from an already service-connected condition, regardless of whether or not the additional impairment is itself a separate disease or injury caused by the service-connected condition, shall be compensated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in view of the statutory purpose to compensate veterans based upon degree of impairment of earning capacity, the direction in § 1110 to pay compensation '[f]or disability' resulting from injury or disease may reasonably be construed as a direction to pay compensation for impairment of earning capacity resulting from such injury or disease.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Saunders v. Wilkie“specifically limited the application of the § 1701(1) definition of 'disability' " to subchapter 17, and that "the statutory purpose to compensate veterans based upon degree of impairment of earning capacity”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Saunders v. Wilkie
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.