Hudson D. Harmon v. Robert O. Finch, Etc.’s Empirical Analysis
460 F.2d 1229 · 1972
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 1995 · most notably Flaten v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1995), Sorenson v. Weinberger (1975)
21 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. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Mark v. Celebrezze · Filice v. Celebrezze · Dean v. Gardner
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The statutory definition of 'disability' was specifically narrowed to correct court decisions that the Congress considered to be too liberal.”
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.