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Veterans Law Judge Zi-Heng Zhu

Issue-level outcome statistics computed from the full text of 372 public Board of Veterans' Appeals decisions signed by VLJ Zi-Heng Zhu in the corpus slice below.

Decisions parsed
372
Issues decided
1,056
Issues granted
16.6% (175)
Issues remanded
49.7% (525)
What this is computed from: 1,929,585 Board decisions (4,382,791 individual issues) dated 1992-03-30 to 2026-07-31, parsed from the public BVA decision archive at va.gov. Every archive year 1992–2025 is complete. 2026 is partial: decisions dated through 2026-07-31 are in, and newer ones are added as the Board publishes them. Years follow the Board's archive folders; some older decisions carry no decision date and are counted under their archive year (see the dataset coverage table). Rates are issue-level: one appeal often decides several issues, so counting a whole decision as a grant when any one issue was granted would overstate grant rates. 23,206 decisions our parser could not fully classify are excluded from rate math. Data build: 2026-10-05.

Disposition breakdown

DispositionIssuesShare
Granted17516.6%
Denied31730.0%
Remanded52549.7%
Dismissed363.4%
Withdrawn20.2%
Vacated10.1%

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Most-decided conditions

ConditionIssuesGrantedDeniedRemandedDismissed / other
Back and lumbar spine10210.8% (11/102)29.4% (30/102)56.9% (58/102)2.9% (3/102)
Knee9710.3% (10/97)37.1% (36/97)48.5% (47/97)4.1% (4/97)
Radiculopathy6518.5% (12/65)33.8% (22/65)41.5% (27/65)6.2% (4/65)
PTSD5920.3% (12/59)39.0% (23/59)37.3% (22/59)3.4% (2/59)
Ankle and foot559.1% (5/55)20.0% (11/55)69.1% (38/55)1.8% (1/55)

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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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