Thompson v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably 10 Vet. App. 361 - In re the Fee Agreement of Cox (1997), 12 Vet. App. 145 - Hilkert v. West (1999)
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 26 U.S.C. § 6212 · 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 38 U.S.C. § 5104 · 38 U.S.C. § 5107 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7105 · 38 U.S.C. § 7252 · 38 U.S.C. § 7266
Relies on McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. · Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs · Christianson v. Colt Industries Operating Corp. · United States v. Chemical Foundation, Inc. · United States National Bank v. Independent Insurance Agents of America, Inc.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“So rigorous has this jurisdictional concept been held to be that VA claimants adversely affected by a BVA decision who miss the 120-day filing deadline can be granted no extension even where they assert inability to comply for ‘good cause’ (see Butler, supra), or because of a mental impairment (see Dudley [,supra ] and Jones (Ponce) [v. Derwinski, 2 Vet.App. 362, 363 (1992) (per curiam) ]), or because of incorrect or misleading information provided by the Court itself (see Dudley, supra).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bailey v. Gober“[W]here an appellant submits clear evidence to the effect that the [Board’s] “regular” mailing practices are not regular or that they were not followed, the Secretary is no longer entitled to the benefit of the presumption and the burden shifts to the Secretary to establish that the [Board] decision was mailed to the veteran ... as required by 38 U.S.C. § 7104 (e).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“THE AMERICAN LEGION Greenville County Veterans Affairs Office Greenville County Square, Suite 1500 Greenville, S.[C]. 29601-3660.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leo 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.