Wilson v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
455 F.2d 304 · 1972
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Smith v. Califano (1981), Hall v. Harris (1981)
17 federal appellate · 5 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. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Ellerman v. Flemming · Hanes v. Celebrezze · Leftwich v. Gardner · Kutchman v. Cohen
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An individual’s earnings from work activities averaging in excess of $140 a month shall be deemed to demonstrate his ability to engage in substantial gainful activity unless there is affirmative evidence that such work activities themselves establish that the individual does not have the ability to engage in substantial gainful activity tf”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“may demonstrate not his ability, but his inability to engage in substantial gainful activity”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““The Secretary shall by regulations prescribe the criteria for determining when services performed or earnings derived from services demonstrate an individual’s ability to engage in substantial gainful activity.””
3 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.