Struck v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2016
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. § 101 (Agent Orange Act of 1991) · 38 U.S.C. § 1110 · 38 U.S.C. § 312 · 38 U.S.C. § 5107 · 38 U.S.C. § 5108 · 38 U.S.C. § 5110 · 38 U.S.C. § 5125 · 38 U.S.C. § 5303
Relies on Gilbert v. Derwinski · Colvin v. Derwinski · Manio v. Derwinski · Caluza v. Brown · Masors 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For purposes of establishing any claim for benefits ... a report of a medical examination administered by a private physician that is provided by a claimant in support of a claim for benefits under that chapter may be accepted without a requirement for confirmation by an examination by a physician employed by the Veterans Health Administration if the report is sufficiently complete to be adequate for the purpose of adjudicating such claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“exhibits, due to disease, a more or less prolonged deviation from his normal method of behavior; or who interferes with the peace of society; or who has so departed ... from the accepted standards of the community ... to which he belongs as to lack the adaptability to make further adjustment to the social customs of the community in which he resides.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beck 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.