Caluza v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 208 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Hensley v. West (2000), Kay v. Principi (2002)
4 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. § 1110 · 38 U.S.C. § 1113 · 38 U.S.C. § 1153 · 38 U.S.C. § 1154 · 38 U.S.C. § 501 · 38 U.S.C. § 5107 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Kokoszka v. Belford · Sisson v. Ruby · National Labor Relations Board v. Walton Manufacturing Co. · Philbrook v. Glodgett
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 208 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) In the case of any veteran who engaged in combat with the enemy in active service ... of the United States during a period of war, ... the Secretary shall accept as sufficient proof of service-connection of any disease or injury alleged to have been incurred in or aggravated by such service satisfactory lay or other evidence of service incurrence or aggravation of such injury or disease if consistent with the circumstances, conditions, or hardships of such service, notwithstanding the fact that there is no official record of such incurrence or aggravation in such service, and, to that end, shall resolve every reasonable doubt in favor of the veteran. Service connection of such injury or disease may be rebutted by clear and convincing evidence to the contrary. The reasons for granting or denying service-connection in each case shall be recorded in full.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n order for a claim to be well grounded, there must be competent evidence of current disability (a medical diagnosis) ...; of incurrence or aggravation of a disease or injury in service (lay or medical evidence) ...; and of a nexus between the in-service injury or disease and the current disability (medical evidence)....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hensley v. West · Ramey v. Brown“[I]n order for a [service-connection] claim to be well grounded, there must be competent evidence of current disability (a medical diagnosis) ...; of incurrence or aggravation of a disease or injury in service (lay or medical evidence) ...; and of a nexus between the in-service injury or disease and the current disability (medical evidence) ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Slater 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.