Robinette v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably Hensley v. West (2000), Mayfield v. Nicholson (2006)
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. § 1110 · 38 U.S.C. § 1154 · 38 U.S.C. § 5102 · 38 U.S.C. § 5103 · 38 U.S.C. § 5107 · 38 U.S.C. § 5108 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7105
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · United States v. Ventresca · Bourjaily v. United States · Costello v. United States · 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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and that such evidence had not been submitted with the application.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Graves v. Brown · McKnight v. Gober“That “evidence” means more than just information to be filled in on the application form, and that an application includes the form plus evidence in support of the claim flows not only from the plain meaning of the term but also from the VA Adjudication Procedure Manual, M21-1.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“). 42 In assessing whether the veteran has met the requisite threshold, the statutes, rules, and cases make clear that the DVA must construe all facts, make all inferences, and apply all presumptions in favor of the veteran. Thus, 43 the evidence submitted in support of a claim”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hensley v. West · Hensley 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.