Robinson v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 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. § 1112 · 38 U.S.C. § 7252 · 38 U.S.C. § 7261
Relies on McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Bolling v. Sharpe · Nordlinger v. Hahn · Schweiker v. Wilson · Hodel v. Indiana
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) decide all relevant questions of law, interpret constitutional, statutory, and regulatory provisions, and determine the meaning or applicability of the terms of an action of the Secretary....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reeves 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.