Paul v. Shalala’s Empirical Analysis
29 F.3d 208 · 1994
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably Sims v. Apfel (2000), Newton v. Apfel (2000)
6 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. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Villa v. Sullivan · Hollis v. Bowen · Scott v. Heckler · Dorsey v. Heckler
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The opinion of a specialist generally is accorded greater weight than that of a non-specialist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Newton v. Apfel“an expansion of the general rationale proffered in support of the appeal”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McQueen v. Apfel
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.