Schaaf v. Matthews’s Empirical Analysis
574 F.2d 157 · 1978
Citation profile
27 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2003 · most notably Cotter v. Harris (1981), Kent v. Schweiker (1983)
27 federal appellate ·
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 30 U.S.C. § 923 · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Baerga v. Richardson · Gober v. Matthews · Ansel v. Weinberger · Arnold v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Bozwich v. Mathews
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“play[s] a major role in the determination of eligibility for black lung benefits.”
1 later decision 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.