Golz v. Shinseki

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that VA has a duty to obtain relevant SSA records when it has notice that the Veteran is receiving SSA disability benefits
• holding that VA's duty to assist extends to potentially \relevant\ evidence, i.e., \records that have a reasonable possibility of helping to substantiate the veteran's claim\
• holding that VA's \duty to assist is not boundless in scope\
• noting that, in order to conclude that records are relevant, \[t]here must be specific reason to believe these records may give rise to pertinent information\
• determining that there is no duty to obtain SSA records when there is no evidence that they are relevant
• holding records need only relate to a claim and have a reasonable possibility of substantiating it

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Sullivan v. McDonald
  Federal Circuit· 2016-03-08· cited 49×
• Kisor v. Shulkin
  Federal Circuit· 2017-09-07· cited 42×
• Charles L. Breedlove Brenda Breedlove v. Eric K. Shinseki
  Veterans Claims· 2010-08-10· cited 34×
• Euzebio v. McDonough
  Federal Circuit· 2021-03-03· cited 33×
• Hargrove v. Shinseki
  Federal Circuit· 2011-01-06· cited 31×
• Arzio v. Shinseki
  Federal Circuit· 2010-04-19· cited 25×
• Cook v. Snyder
  Veterans Claims· 2017-01-31· cited 20×
• Robert L. Trafter v. Eric K. Shinseki
  Veterans Claims· 2013-04-29· cited 17×
• Clyde McKinney, Jr. v. Robert A. McDonald
  Veterans Claims· 2016-03-11· cited 12×
• Kisor v. McDonough
  Federal Circuit· 2021-04-30· cited 9×
• Odis C. Stowers v. Eric K. Shinseki
  Veterans Claims· 2014-05-16· cited 4×
• Conyers v. McDonough
  Federal Circuit· 2024-01-30· cited 4×
• Richard C. Raugust v. Eric K. Shinseki
  Veterans Claims· 2010-06-11· cited 3×
• Kisor v. Wilkie
  Federal Circuit· 2020-08-12· cited 2×
• Molitor v. Shulkin
  Veterans Claims· 2017-06-01· cited 2×
• Warren B. Cook v. Robert D. Snyder
  Veterans Claims· 2017-01-31
• Jaclyn R. Molitor v. David J. Shulkin
  Veterans Claims· 2017-06-01
• Marlesa D. Lynch and Cynthia M. Martinez v. Robert L. Wilkie
  Veterans Claims· 2018-10-23
• Terry L. Hamilton v. Denis McDonough
  Veterans Claims· 2024-05-23
• Vincent Curtis Conyers v. Denis McDonough
  Veterans Claims· 2025-01-08

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• TRW Inc. v. Andrews
  Supreme Court· 2001-11-13· cited 1,407×
• Quartuccio v. Principi
  Veterans Claims· 2002-06-17· cited 575×
• Murincsak v. Derwinski
  Veterans Claims· 1992-04-24· cited 126×
• McGee v. Peake
  Federal Circuit· 2008-01-08· cited 74×
• Moore v. Shinseki
  Federal Circuit· 2009-02-10· cited 60×
• Frank A. Glover, Claimant-Appellant v. Togo D. West, Jr., Secretary of Veterans Affairs
  Federal Circuit· 1999-10-19· cited 53×
• Clarkson v. Brown
  Veterans Claims· 1993-04-20· cited 8×