Allen v. Weinberger’s Empirical Analysis
552 F.2d 781 · 1977
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Rodriguez v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1981), Hephner v. Mathews (1978)
49 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 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. § 405 (§ 205 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 · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Landess v. Weinberger · Hall 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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Once it is determined that an impairment exists, the opinions of the treating physician are entitled to substantially greater weight than the impression of a doctor who sees the claimant only once." Allen v. Weinberger, 552 F.2d 781 (7th Cir. 1977), et al.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“without personal examination of the claimant, deserve little weight in the overall evaluation of liability. The (medical) advisers' assessment of what other doctors find is hardly a basis for competent evaluation ....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
5 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.