Schweiker v. McClure’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
203 federal appellate · 101 district · 146 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 783 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2025 · most notably Heckler v. Ringer (1984), Concrete Pipe & Products of Cal., Inc. v. Construction Laborers Pension Trust for Southern Cal. (1993)
203 federal appellate · 101 district · 146 state decisions — followed in 29 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 Mathews v. Eldridge · Richardson v. Perales · Morrissey v. Brewer · Goldberg v. Kelly · In the Matters of Lee Roy Murchison and John Whites
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 783 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[D]ue process demands impartiality on the part of those who function in judicial or quasi-judicial capacities.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'showing of conflict of interest or some other specific reason.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“burden of establishing a disqualifying interest rests on the party making the assertion.”
6 later decisions 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.