Collette v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
82 F.3d 389 · 1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably Shedden v. Principi (2004), Cohen v. Brown (1997)
2 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. § 1154 · 38 U.S.C. § 7292
Relies on Livingston v. Derwinski · Caluza v. Brown · John G. Alamilla, Sr. v. General Accounting Office · Jones v. Brown · Jensen 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clear and convincing evidence to the contrary.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“satisfactory lay or other evidence of service incurrence or aggravation of such injury or disease.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is the purpose of the bill to place in brief legislative form the policy of the Veterans’ Administration governing determination of service connection, with particular reference to determinations of fact pertaining to those persons who engaged in combat with the enemy in active service with a military or naval organization of the United States during some war, campaign, or expedition. The language of the bill has been carefully selected to make clear that a statutory presumption in connection with determination of service connection is not intended. The question as to whether any disability was or was not incurred in active military service is recognized as a question of fact to be determined upon the evidence in each individual case. It is desired to overcome the adverse effect of a lack of official record of incurrence or aggravation of a disease or injury and treatment thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kessel 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.