LeMaster v. Weinberger’s Empirical Analysis
533 F.2d 337 · 1976
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Gibson v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare (1982), James CRISP, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Defendant-Appellee (1986)
26 federal appellate · 4 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. § 401 (§ 201 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Wokojance v. Weinberger · Ingram v. Richardson · Combs 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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Substantial evidence means more than a scintilla; it is such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
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.