Johnson v. Derwinski’s Empirical Analysis
949 F.2d 394 · 1991
Citation profile
29 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Barnett v. Brown (1996), Bastien v. Shinseki (2010)
29 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on Machado v. Derwinski · Oppenheimer v. Derwinski · Lee v. Office of Personnel Management · Pena v. Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Act authorized this court to review non-factual decisions of the Veterans Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.