Schweiker v. Hogan’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
228 federal appellate · 56 district · 96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 588 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Schweiker v. Chilicky (1988), Bowen v. Gilliard (1987)
228 federal appellate · 56 district · 96 state decisions — followed in 18 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 Bolling v. Sharpe · Harris v. McRae · Rosado v. Wyman · Schweiker v. Gray Panthers · Schweiker v. Wilson
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 588 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as far as practicable, to furnish medical assistance to individuals whose income and resources are insufficient to meet the costs of necessary medical services.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the medical assistance afforded to an individual who qualified under any categorical assistance program could not be different from that afforded to an individual who qualified under any other program”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“did not require that the medically needy be treated comparably to the categorically needy in all respects.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hogan v. Heckler · Atkins v. Rivera
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.