Jones v. Shalala’s Empirical Analysis
21 F.3d 191 · 1994
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Hunt v. City of Markham (2000), Hawkins v. First Union Corporation Long-Term Disability Plan (2003)
16 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1382 (§ 1611 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on United States v. Sanchez · Dotson v. Shalala · Corrao v. Shalala · Keyes v. Sullivan · Chicager v. Califano
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Jones was explicit, if laconic, that he makes all this money by theft. Surprisingly, he also receives welfare benefits, hut he must be using them for his living expenses; the $21,900 is (by his own testimony, uncontradicted) to pay for his addictions. We are hard pressed to understand what kind of evidence might be presented that would rebut the presumption of gainful employment in a such a case[J Id.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]n individual who does substantial gainful work despite an impairment or impairments that otherwise might be considered disabling is not disabled for purposes of ... social security benefits based on disability during any period in which such work is performed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A likely outcome of awarding [Joyal] benefits would ... be to enable him to increase the scale of his addiction[ ]. That is an argument against awarding disability benefits for disabilities that are due to addiction....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.