Hanson v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Robert J. Ingram v. R. James Nicholson (2007), Livesay v. Principi (2001)
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. § 5110 · 38 U.S.C. § 7252
Relies on Gilbert v. Derwinski · Quarles v. Derwinski · Isenbart v. Brown · Meeks v. Brown · Scott 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evidence of record provides, at the least, a plausible basis for the Board's finding that the appellant withdrew his February 1984 PTSD claim; therefore, the Board's decision denying the appellant entitlement to an effective date retroactive to 1984 is not clearly erroneous”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hayre v. Principi“the effective date of an award based on an original claim . . . shall be fixed in accordance with the facts found, but shall not be earlier than the date of receipt of application therefor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGrath v. Gober“[t]he issue, boiled down to its essentials, is whether there remained a viable claim for PTSD in 1984 upon which an effective date could be anchored”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hayre 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.