Combs v. Weinberger’s Empirical Analysis
501 F.2d 1361 · 1974
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Beavers v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare (1978), Cook v. Heckler (1986)
11 federal appellate · 6 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
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Underwood v. Ribicoff · DePaepe v. Richardson · Bertha M. Bittel v. Elliot L. Richardson, Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Appeals Council may be entitled to disbelieve the claimant’s testimony, even though uncontradicted in the record, but we think it must make a specific holding on the point when the hearing judge has found the claimant’s testimony credible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Conrad v. Mathews
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.