Hall v. Chater’s Empirical Analysis
52 F.3d 518 · 1995
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2015
5 federal appellate ·
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)
Relies on Califano v. Sanders · McGowen v. Harris · Johnson v. Sullivan
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As we stated in McGowen, the Secretary must be afforded some leeway in making a decision whether to reopen, so that it may 'in fairness look far enough into the proffered factual and legal support to determine whether it is the same claim.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.