Gober v. Matthews’s Empirical Analysis
574 F.2d 772 · 1978
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 14 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2016 · most notably Mullins Coal Co. of Va. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (1988), Cotter v. Harris (1981)
46 federal appellate · 14 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
Applies 30 U.S.C. § 841 · 30 U.S.C. § 921 · 30 U.S.C. § 923 · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Richardson v. Perales · Baerga v. Richardson · Ansel 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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hile an [ALJ] is free to resolve issues of credibility as to lay testimony or to choose between properly submitted medical opinions, he is not free to set his own expertise against that of a physician who testified before him.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“duty to scrutinize the record as a whole to determine whether the conclusions reached are rational.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In our view an examiner’s findings should be as comprehensive and analytical as feasible and, where appropriate, should include a statement of subordinate factual foundations on which ultimate factual conclusions are based, so that a reviewing court may know the basis for the decision. This is necessary so that the court may properly exercise its responsibility under 42 U.S.C. § 405 (g) to determine if the Secretary’s decision is supported by substantial evidence.”
3 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.