Brasher v. Celebrezze’s Empirical Analysis
340 F.2d 413 · 1965
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 11 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1998 · most notably Richardson v. Perales (1971), Marvin A. Yawitz v. Caspar W. Weinberger (1974)
34 federal appellate · 11 district · 2 state decisions
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 Arizona v. California · Celebrezze v. Bolas · Review Committee, Venue VII, Commodity Stabilization Service, United States Department of Agriculture v. Willey · Matson Navigation Co. v. Pacific Far East Line, Inc.
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(1) . . . (A) Inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months; * * * (2) For purposes of paragraph (1) (A) (B) A widow . . . shall not be determined to be under a disability (for purposes of section 402(e) or (f) of this title) unless his or her physical or mental impairment or impairments are of a level of severity which under regulations prescribed by the Secretary is deemed to be sufficient to preclude an individual from engaging in any gainful activity. (3) For purposes of this subsection, a `physical or mental impairment' is an impairment that results from anatomical, physiological, or psychological abnormalities which are demonstrable by medically accepted clinical and laboratory diagnostic techniques." 42 U.S.C. § 423 (d).”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[The] administrative constructions of the statute are entitled, of course, to great weight and are to be sustained unless unreasonable or plainly inconsistent with the governing statute. Review Committee, Venue VII, etc. v. Willey, 275 F.2d 264 , 272 (8 Cir. 1960), cert. denied 363 U.S. 827 , 80 S.Ct. 1597 , 4 L.Ed.2d 1522 ; United States v. Ekberg, 291 F.2d 913, 921 (8 Cir. 1961), cert. denied 368 U.S. 920 , 82 S.Ct. 242 , 7 L.Ed.2d 135 . We observe no such unreasonableness or inconsistency here.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Griffith v. Finch
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.