Thompson v. Califano’s Empirical Analysis
556 F.2d 616 · 1977
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2003 · most notably Cowart v. Schweiker (1981), Kane v. Heckler (1984)
11 federal appellate · 9 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
Relies on Miranda v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Bertha M. Bittel v. Elliot L. Richardson, Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Alvarado v. Weinberger · Peterson 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“go to inordinate lengths to develop a claimant's case,”
5 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.