Eddy v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably Crippen v. Brown (1996), Robert J. Ingram v. R. James Nicholson (2007)
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. § 1153 · 38 U.S.C. § 5104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7104 · 38 U.S.C. § 7261
Relies on Gilbert v. Derwinski · Russell v. Principi · Caluza v. Brown · Masors v. Derwinski · Smith 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where evidence establishes [CUE], the prior decision will be reversed or amended. For the purpose of authorizing benefits, the rating or other adjudicative decision which constitutes a reversal of a prior decision on the grounds of [CUE] has the same effect as if the corrected decision had been made on the date of the reversed decision.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“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.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A determination that there was a '[CUE]' must be based on the record and the law that existed at the time of the prior . . . decision.”
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.