Beausoleil v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2011
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. § 1154 · 38 U.S.C. § 5103 · 38 U.S.C. § 5107 · 38 U.S.C. § 5108 · 38 U.S.C. § 7252 · 38 U.S.C. § 7261
Relies on Colvin v. Derwinski · Manio v. Derwinski · Caluza v. Brown · Masors v. Derwinski · Espiritu 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not link chest trauma specifically to the appellant’s current condition. Rather, the letter contains only a generic statement about the possibility of a link between chest trauma and restrictive lung disease. Such a statement is too general and inconclusive to make the claim well grounded in the appellant’s case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to notify an individual of what is necessary to complete the application in the limited circumstances where there is an incomplete application that references other known and existing evidence”
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.