Riggins v. Apfel’s Empirical Analysis
177 F.3d 689 · 1999
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Goff v. Barnhart (2005), Wagner v. Astrue (2007)
20 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Relies on Bowen v. Yuckert · Polaski v. Heckler · Nelson v. Sullivan · Clark v. Apfel · Murphy v. Sullivan
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although [plaintiff] claims he could not afford such medication, there is no evidence to suggest that he sought any treatment offered to indigents or chose to forgo smoking three packs of cigarettes a day to help finance pain medication.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.