Funderburk v. Califano’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2004
8 federal appellate ·
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)
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Califano v. Sanders · Weinberger v. Salfi
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The Appeals Council exercises the jurisdiction to consider the question of re-opening and revision of the administrative law judge's decision . . . . [T]he Council will carefully consider any additional evidence or information which you may furnish.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`The Appeals Council has carefully considered your [additional evidence] but has concluded that modification of action previously taken is not warranted. . . . Accordingly, the administrative law judge's decision dated July 30, 1976, stands as the final decision of the Secretary in this case.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the additional materials submitted, concluded that modification of the prior decision was not warranted, and held that the administrative law judge's decision dated July 30, 1976,”
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.