Laffoon v. Califano’s Empirical Analysis
558 F.2d 253 · 1977
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Harris v. Heckler (1985), Walden v. Schweiker (1982)
37 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · DePaepe v. Richardson · Stark 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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“more than a scintilla, and must do more than create a suspicion of the existence of the fact to be established. 'It means such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“so stringent that it borders on being unrealistic.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[c]onflicts in the evidence, including those arising in medical opinions, are to be resolved not by the courts, but by the Secretary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Heckler
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.