Joki v. Flemming’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 1984
5 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 413 (§ 213 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Lumbra v. United States · Berry v. United States · Goldman v. Folsom · Klimaszewski v. Flemming
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While it is true, as defendant contends, that the administrative agency has the ultimate responsibility of determining the issue of ‘disability’ as defined by the statute, expert opinions of qualified physicians on this issue, though advisory and not controlling, should be considered with all other relevant evidence by the finder of facts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gilbert v. Gardner““Expert opinions on such issues are admissible evidence to be considered by the fact finder, but when they are not repudiated in any respect by substantial evidence to the contrary, an adverse decision on these ultimate facts should be set aside as based on ‘suspicion’ and ‘speculation’.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gilbert v. Gardner
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.