Bowyer v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2016
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 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 38 U.S.C. § 5107
Relies on Gilbert v. Derwinski · Colvin v. Derwinski · Essex Electro Engineers, Inc. v. United States · Stillwell v. Brown · Austin v. Brown
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and in determining the reasonableness of the Secretary's position during the administrative proceedings the court looks to”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Principi“the relevant, determinative circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith 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.