Issue-level outcome statistics computed from the full text of 1,919 public Board of Veterans' Appeals decisions signed by VLJ Andrew J. Mullen in the corpus slice below.
| Disposition | Issues | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Granted | 553 | 15.9% |
| Denied | 2,014 | 57.8% |
| Remanded | 698 | 20.0% |
| Dismissed | 207 | 5.9% |
| Vacated | 14 | 0.4% |
| Moot | 1 | 0.0% |
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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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