Thompson v. Brown

How courts have described this case

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

• application for DIC benefits and application for flag, individually or together, “are not the functional equivalent of an application for burial benefits”
• since veteran’s death was not service connected and since record did not show any other qualifying conditions under 38 U.S.C. § 3501(a)(1) at time of veteran’s death, Secretary’s duty under 38 U.S.C. § 7722(c) did not extend to veteran’s widow

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Erspamer v. Brown
  Veterans Claims· 1996-11-04· cited 14×
• Shields v. Brown
  Veterans Claims· 1995-11-02· cited 10×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Sabonis v. Brown
  Veterans Claims· 1994-04-28· cited 339×
• Grottveit v. Brown
  Veterans Claims· 1993-05-05· cited 193×
• Darrow v. Derwinski
  Veterans Claims· 1992-04-17· cited 50×
• Aguilar v. Derwinski
  Veterans Claims· 1991-12-16· cited 47×
• McGinnis v. Brown
  Veterans Claims· 1993-02-24· cited 41×
• Herzog v. Derwinski
  Veterans Claims· 1992-06-22· cited 17×