Issue-level outcome statistics computed from the full text of 9,542 public Board of Veterans' Appeals decisions signed by VLJ H.N.SCHWARTZ in the corpus slice below.
| Disposition | Issues | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Granted | 4,213 | 19.0% |
| Denied | 10,027 | 45.2% |
| Remanded | 6,654 | 30.0% |
| Dismissed | 1,178 | 5.3% |
| Withdrawn | 92 | 0.4% |
| Vacated | 13 | 0.1% |
| Moot | 2 | 0.0% |
| Referred | 5 | 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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