Sierakowski v. Weinberger’s Empirical Analysis
504 F.2d 831 · 1974
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently January 2006 · most notably Valente v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1984), Lewin v. Schwieker (1981)
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
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. § 404 (§ 204 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Bowen v. Massachusetts · Morgan v. Finch · Robert L. Alexander v. Elliot L. Richardson, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare · White v. Finch
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * [T]he committee’s bill modifies the House bill to provide for the payment of disability benefits for an insured worker who has been or can be expected to be totally disabled throughout a continuous period of 12 calendar months____ Where a worker has been under a disability which has lasted for less than 12 calendar months, the bill would require only a prediction that the worker’s disability will continue for a total of at least 12 calendar months after onset of the disability. The committee retains the provision in present law under which payment of disability benefits is first made for the seventh full month of disability. The House bill would have authorized payments beginning with the sixth full month of disability.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In any case in which more than the correct amount of payment has been made, there shall be no adjustment of payments to, or recovery by the United States from, any person who is without fault if such adjustment or recovery would defeat the purpose of [Title II] or would be against equity and good conscience.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must have lasted or must be expected to last for a continuous period of at least twelve months.”
3 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.