Issue-level outcome statistics computed from the full text of 2,636 public Board of Veterans' Appeals decisions signed by VLJ Ray Barto Slabbekorn, Jr. in the corpus slice below.
| Disposition | Issues | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Granted | 2,826 | 33.8% |
| Denied | 3,335 | 39.8% |
| Remanded | 1,587 | 19.0% |
| Dismissed | 564 | 6.7% |
| Withdrawn | 44 | 0.5% |
| Vacated | 7 | 0.1% |
| Moot | 5 | 0.1% |
| Referred | 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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