Murincsak v. Derwinski

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the duty to assist requires obtaining SSA records of which the Board has notice
• recognizing that Secretary’s duty to assist includes obtaining and reviewing an SSA decision and all such SSA records and giving them appropriate consideration and weight
• stating that an SSA decision that the veteran is unemployable is relevant to his claim of entitlement to a total disability rating based on unemployability
• concluding VA has a duty to obtain SSA records when it has actual notice that the veteran was receiving SSA benefits
• holding VA failed in its duty to assist by not acquiring pertinent SSA records where veteran had filed well-grounded claim and VA had actual notice that veteran was receiving SSA disability benefits
• providing that where VA has actual notice of the existence of records held by SSA which appear relevant to a pending claim, VA has a duty to assist by requesting those records from SSA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

79 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Quartuccio v. Principi
  Veterans Claims· 2002-06-17· cited 575×
• Bell v. Derwinski
  Veterans Claims· 1992-07-21· cited 286×
• Caffrey v. Brown
  Veterans Claims· 1994-03-31· cited 155×
• Robinette v. Brown
  Veterans Claims· 1995-07-14· cited 149×
• Damrel v. Brown
  Veterans Claims· 1994-02-18· cited 147×
• Suttmann v. Brown
  Veterans Claims· 1993-05-18· cited 113×
• Golz v. Shinseki
  Federal Circuit· 2010-01-04· cited 112×
• Cohen v. Brown
  Veterans Claims· 1997-03-07· cited 104×
• Joe L. Monzingo v. Eric K. Shinseki
  Veterans Claims· 2012-11-21· cited 91×
• Faust v. West
  Veterans Claims· 2000-02-15· cited 88×
• Brown v. Brown
  Veterans Claims· 1993-08-16· cited 60×
• Ivey v. Derwinski
  Veterans Claims· 1992-04-28· cited 45×
• Baker v. West
  Veterans Claims· 1998-04-07· cited 39×
• Euzebio v. McDonough
  Federal Circuit· 2021-03-03· cited 33×
• Woods v. Gober
  Veterans Claims· 2000-12-15· cited 32×
• Gregory v. Brown
  Veterans Claims· 1993-05-13· cited 27×
• Holland v. Brown
  Veterans Claims· 1994-05-23· cited 26×
• Shoemaker v. Derwinski
  Veterans Claims· 1992-09-21· cited 23×
• Greyzck v. West
  Veterans Claims· 1999-03-31· cited 22×
• Uttieri v. Brown
  Veterans Claims· 1995-03-08· cited 21×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gilbert v. Derwinski
  Veterans Claims· 1990-10-12· cited 2,831×
• Schafrath v. Derwinski
  Veterans Claims· 1991-11-26· cited 768×
• Murphy v. Derwinski
  Veterans Claims· 1990-11-08· cited 305×
• Karnas v. Derwinski
  Veterans Claims· 1991-06-11· cited 218×
• Peyton v. Derwinski
  Veterans Claims· 1991-05-30· cited 128×
• Godwin v. Derwinski
  Veterans Claims· 1991-08-19· cited 119×
• Thompson v. Derwinski
  Veterans Claims· 1991-05-23· cited 97×
• Moore v. Derwinski
  Veterans Claims· 1991-07-22· cited 85×
• Rogozinski v. Derwinski
  Veterans Claims· 1990-05-29· cited 75×
• Webster v. Derwinski
  Veterans Claims· 1991-02-28· cited 74×
• Sammarco v. Derwinski
  Veterans Claims· 1991-01-10· cited 55×
• Payne v. Derwinski
  Veterans Claims· 1990-11-19· cited 51×
• Collier v. Derwinski
  Veterans Claims· 1991-08-09· cited 37×
• Oppenheimer v. Derwinski
  Veterans Claims· 1991-07-15· cited 29×
• Lehman v. Derwinski
  Veterans Claims· 1991-07-01· cited 14×
• Heerdt v. Derwinski
  Veterans Claims· 1991-11-12· cited 2×