Calma v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2015
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. § 7103 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7266
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Foman v. Davis · McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. · Christianson v. Colt Industries Operating Corp. · Torres v. Oakland Scavenger Co.
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.
“an NOA need not contain a literal statement that a BVA decision is being appealed to the Court, as long as the intent to seek Court review is clear from the document as a whole and the circumstances of its filing with the Court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Clerk [of the Court] shall liberally construe the rules as they apply to appellants representing themselves”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lariosa v. Principi“Court has traditionally adopted a liberal rule of construction as to what constitutes a valid NOA”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lariosa v. Principi
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.