Mason v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Crippen v. Brown (1996), 14 Vet. App. 227 - Smith v. Gober (2000)
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. § 5104 · 38 U.S.C. § 5110 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7105 · 38 U.S.C. § 7261
Relies on United States v. Chemical Foundation, Inc. · Gilbert v. Derwinski · Russell v. Principi · Quarles v. Derwinski · Masors 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“determine whether, on the entire evidence of record before the RO in 1988 (including the lay statements), the evidence establishes manifestly that the correction of the error would have changed the outcome – that is, that service connection would have resulted”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.