Brandon v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
377 F.2d 488 · 1967
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Gold v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare (1972), Blalock v. Richardson (1972)
13 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 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 Ber v. Celebrezze · Hayes v. Gardner · Bradey v. Ribicoff · Davidson v. Gardner
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“pain unaccompanied by any objectively observable symptoms which is, nevertheless, real to the sufferer and so intense to be disabling will support a claim for disability benefits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shively v. Heckler
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.