Crippen v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably 12 Vet. App. 145 - Hilkert v. West (1999), 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. § 5104 · 38 U.S.C. § 5107 · 38 U.S.C. § 5108 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7105 · 38 U.S.C. § 7261
Relies on Gilbert v. Derwinski · Colvin v. Derwinski · Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. v. Costle · Manio v. Derwinski · Russell v. Principi
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Either the correct facts, as they were known at the time, were not before the adjudicator or the statutory or regulatory provisions extant at the time were incorrectly applied.... [CUE] is the sort of error which, had it not been made, would have manifestly changed the outcome ... [, an error that is] undebatable, so that it can be said that reasonable minds could only conclude that the original decision was fatally flawed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.