Veterans Law Judge L.J. BAKKE-SHAW
Issue-level outcome statistics computed from the full text of 91 public
Board of Veterans' Appeals decisions signed by VLJ L.J. BAKKE-SHAW in the corpus slice below.
What this is computed from: 1,340,998 Board decisions
(3,086,734 individual issues) dated 2007-06-01 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.
82,386 decisions our parser could not fully classify are excluded from rate math.
Data build: 2026-08-28.
Disposition breakdown
| Disposition | Issues | Share |
|---|
| Granted | 64 | 29.6% |
| Denied | 71 | 32.9% |
| Remanded | 65 | 30.1% |
| Dismissed | 14 | 6.5% |
| Vacated | 2 | 0.9% |
Most-decided conditions
BackAnkle FootHand WristKneeHearing Loss
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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