Adams v. Weinberger’s Empirical Analysis
548 F.2d 239 · 1977
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Gavin v. Heckler (1987), Brand v. Secretary of Department of Health Education and Welfare (1980)
50 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1382 (§ 1611 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Celebrezze v. Bolas · Martin v. Secretary of Department of Health, Education & Welfare · Marion v. Gardner · Brasher v. Celebrezze
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“impotent to seek and use means of rehabilitation,”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[In McShea ], we held that alcoholism, either standing alone or combined with other causes, may constitute a compensable injury. Consistent with this position, we rejected the Secretary’s adherence to her belief that alcoholism is a self-inflicted condition. We found ... untenable the Secretary’s position that [her] inquiry into the issue of alcoholism ends with medical evidence supporting a finding of “no objective physical impairment.” Because a negative attitude toward admission of a tendency to drink heavily “is a common accompaniment of the disease of alcoholism,” and because the disease is often masked by other disorders which are more readily diagnosable, we imposed an affirmative duty on the ALT to inquire further and to develop a full and fair record wherever evidence of alcohol abuse is present in the record ... [T]he relevant inquiry, where there is evidence of alcoholism, is not whether the claimant should be able to control it, but rather whether the claimant is addicted to alcohol and as a consequence, has lost the ability to control its use. (citations and footnotes omitted)”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“otherwise, the statement represents the rationalizations of a sick individual who does not realize the extent of his illness”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.