Weinberger v. Salfi’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
1,994 federal appellate · 809 district · 512 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5,945 later decisions (148 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Mathews v. Eldridge (1976), Califano v. Sanders (1977)
1,994 federal appellate · 809 district · 512 state decisions — followed in 41 states
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 Stanley v. Illinois · Udall v. Tallman · Dandridge v. Williams · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc.
Cited together with Mathews v. Eldridge · Califano v. Sanders · Heckler v. Ringer · Dandridge v. Williams · Johnson v. Robison
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 5,945 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Exhaustion is generally required as a matter of preventing premature interference with agency processes, so that the agency may function efficiently and so that it may have an opportunity to correct its own errors, to afford the parties and the courts the benefit of its experience and expertise, and to compile a record which is adequate for judicial review.”
518 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“after [a] final decision of the Secretary made after a hearing to which he was a party.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage“extend[ed] to any 'action' seeking 'to recover on any [Social Security] claim'— irrespective of whether resort to judicial processes is necessitated by . . . allegedly unconstitutional statutory restrictions.”
13 later decisions 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.