Small v. Califano’s Empirical Analysis
565 F.2d 797 · 1977
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 21 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently October 2007 · most notably Parker v. Harris (1980), Cowart v. Schweiker (1981)
25 federal appellate · 21 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 Barrett v. United States · Cutler v. Weinberger · Baerga v. Richardson · Hernandez v. Weinberger · McLamore 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Secretary has obligation both to claimants and to reviewing courts to make full and detailed findings in support of his ultimate conclusion”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lewin v. Schwieker
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.