Chester v. Mathews’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2002
8 federal appellate · 8 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. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Richardson v. Perales · Laws v. Celebrezze · Thomas v. Celebrezze · Underwood v. Ribicoff
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A vocational expert’s opinion in a disability case is only worthwhile if it is based on a consideration of all other evidence that has been brought out in a case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““[T]he Secretary must explicitly consider the claimant’s subjective symptoms, DePaepe v. Richardson, 464 F.2d 92, 99 (5th Cir. 1972), . . . While the Secretary has a right to reject such subjective evidence, Reyes Robles v. Finch, 409 F.2d 84, 87 (1st Cir. 1969), the failure to do so explicitly leads to the conclusion that such evidence has not been considered at all.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gates v. Califano“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 . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Califano
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.