Shalala v. Schaefer’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
296 federal appellate · 131 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,348 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably Seavey v. Barnhart (2001), Forney v. Apfel (1998)
296 federal appellate · 131 district · 10 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSwedberg v. Bowen (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 401 (§ 201 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Brecht v. Abrahamson · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Farrar v. Hobby · Texas State Teachers Ass'n v. Garland Independent School District · Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air
Cited together with Melkonyan v. Sullivan · Pierce v. Underwood · Sullivan v. Finkelstein · Hensley v. Eckerhart · Sullivan v. Hudson
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 1,348 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court may, on motion of the [Commissioner] made for good cause shown before [she] files [her] answer, remand the case to the [Commissioner] for further action by the [Commissioner], and it may at any time order additional evidence to be taken before the [Commissioner], but only upon a showing that there is new evidence which is material and that there is good cause for the failure to incorporate such evidence into the record in a prior proceeding....”
57 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unless the court finds that the position of the United States was substantially justified or that special circumstances make an award unjust.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Immediate entry of judgment (as opposed to entry of judgment after postremand agency proceedings have been completed and their results filed with the court) is in fact the principal feature that distinguishes a sentence-four remand from a sentence-six remand.”
11 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.