Edenfield v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably 10 Vet. App. 488 - Savage v. Gober (1997), Cohen v. Brown (1997)
1 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. § 5103 · 38 U.S.C. § 5107 · 38 U.S.C. § 5108 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7261
Relies on Colvin v. Derwinski · Murphy v. Derwinski · Espiritu v. Derwinski · Grottveit v. Brown · Thurber 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[B]efore the BVA relies, in rendering a decision on a claim, on any evidence developed or obtained by it subsequent to the issuance of the most recent [Statement of the Case (SOC) ] or [Supplemental (SOC) ] with respect to such claim, the BVA must provide a claimant with reasonable notice of such evidence and of the reliance proposed to be placed on it and a reasonable opportunity for the claimant to respond to it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Johnson v. Brown“require[s] a person claiming VA benefits to file a claim on an application form provided by the Secretary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Fleshman v. West“evidence necessary to complete the application.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Fleshman v. West
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.