Fugere v. Derwinski’s Empirical Analysis
972 F.2d 331 · 1992
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Epps v. Gober (1997), Ledford v. West (1998)
4 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 Markham v. Cabell · Fugere v. Derwinski · Phillips v. General Services Administration
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a schedule of ratings of reductions in earning capacity from specific injuries or combination of injuries.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Court of Veterans Appeals may not second guess the Secretary as to what the schedule [of ratings] should contain.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sellers v. Principi“to review the schedule of ratings for disabilities adopted under section 1155 of this title.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sellers 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.