Brown v. Finch’s Empirical Analysis
429 F.2d 80 · 1970
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently June 1992 · most notably Whitney v. Schweiker (1982), Hernandez v. Weinberger (1974)
39 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Cohen v. Perales · Knox v. Finch · Martin v. Finch · Cross v. Finch
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““the relevant inquiry is not whether the claimant is able to obtain employment at some substantial gainful activity that exists in the national economy, by whether the claimant is able to engage in such activity.” Brown v. Finch, 429 F.2d 80 at 82 , (5th Cir. 1970.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Norwood v. Finch“is not to re-weigh the evidence but to determine whether there is substantial evidence to support the Secretary's decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.