Reading v. Mathews’s Empirical Analysis
542 F.2d 993 · 1976
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably 15161b v. Dar a Smolen, Flaten v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1995)
11 federal appellate · 3 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. § 402 (§ 202 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Eisenstadt v. Baker · Time, Inc. v. Bon Air Hotel, Inc. · Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen v. Bangor & Aroostook Railroad · Futernick v. Richardson
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“which began prior to age 22 [the time at which insured status lapsed] and continued up to the time of application.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“engaging in any substantial gainful activity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parish v. Califano
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.