Collins v. Mathews’s Empirical Analysis
547 F.2d 795 · 1976
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1990
10 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
Relies on Blalock v. Richardson · Wilson v. Richardson · Leftwich v. Gardner · Cooke v. Celebrezze · Felthager v. Weinberger
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“, it is necessary for a claimant to show that the miner's work attendance was sporadic, his performance poor, and his earnings marginal. 7 The Secretary has recognized that some miners do”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen a disabled coal miner chooses to make a heroic effort to work, even when physically unable to do so, he or his family should not be deprived of benefits which Congress intended.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although there were conflicting interpretations of [the] X-rays, the [ALJ] determined the deceased coal miner had simple pneumoconiosis”
1 later decision 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.