West v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 38 U.S.C. § 1154 · 38 U.S.C. § 5107 · 38 U.S.C. § 5108 · 38 U.S.C. § 7252 · 38 U.S.C. § 7261
Relies on Gilbert v. Derwinski · Colvin v. Derwinski · Fletcher v. Derwinski · Murphy v. Derwinski · Manio 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where ... VA determines that the veteran did not engage in combat with the enemy, or that the veteran did engage in combat with the enemy but the claimed stressor is not related to such combat, the veteran’s lay testimony, by itself, will not be enough to establish the occurrence of the alleged stressor. Instead, the record must contain service records which corroborate the veteran’s testimony as to the occurrence of the claimed stressor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Moreau 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.