Webster v. Derwinski’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Fletcher v. Derwinski (1991), Russell v. Principi (1992)
1 federal appellate ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Gilbert v. Derwinski · Murphy v. Derwinski · Ohland v. Derwinski · Sammarco v. Derwinski · Payne v. Derwinski
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Definite impairment in the ability to establish or maintain effective and wholesome relationships with people. The psy-choneurotic symptoms result in such reduction in initiative, flexibility, efficiency and reliability levels as to produce definite industrial impairment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fisher v. Derwinski“Because we are a Court of review, it is not appropriate for us to make a de novo finding, based on the evidence, of [a factual matter].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hensley v. West
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.