Veterans Law Judge 8.45 and 38.02-38.03.
Issue-level outcome statistics computed from the full text of 20 public
Board of Veterans' Appeals decisions signed by VLJ 8.45 and 38.02-38.03. in the corpus slice below.
What this is computed from: 1,907,778 Board decisions
(4,157,093 individual issues) dated 1992-03-30 to 2026-04-30, parsed from the public
BVA decision archive at va.gov. Corpus ingest is in progress — the full 1992–2026 archive (~1.9M decisions)
is being added, newest year first, so recent years are over-represented right now.
Totals that blend all years therefore drift as older years land; the per-year table is the stable view. Rates are issue-level: one appeal often decides
several issues, and the Board's own reporting cautions that per-decision rates overstate grant rates.
20,794 decisions our parser could not fully classify are excluded from rate math.
Data build: 2026-09-03.
Disposition breakdown
| Disposition | Issues | Share |
|---|
| Denied | 1 | 3.6% |
| Remanded | 27 | 96.4% |
Most-decided conditions
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Docket mix drives outcome rates: judges deciding more increased-rating appeals (where partial grants are
common) will look different from judges deciding more service-connection appeals. Compare a judge against
the Board-wide issue-level baseline before reading anything into a single rate.
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