Vidal v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2014
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 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7252
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Commissioner, Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Jean · Gilbert v. Derwinski · Colvin v. Derwinski · Grottveit 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]ach case stands on its own evaluation and is not easily comparable with any other case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“spent in duplicative, unorganized, or otherwise unproductive efforts,”
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.