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590 F.2d 91 · 1978

Citation profile

52
cited by 52 later decisions
March 2010
most recently cited

23 federal appellate · 3 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably Johnson v. Harris (1980), Smith v. Schweiker (1981)

23 federal appellate · 3 district ·

31019781980199020002010decided

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 Rivas v. Weinberger · United States v. Falu · M. S. Millikin, and M. S. Millikin and Dorothy P. Millikin v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · 316 F. Supp. 144 - Prevette v. Richardson

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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The ability to work only a few hours a day or to work only on an intermittent basis is not the ability to engage in 'substantial gainful activity.'”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “'only have to scan the material [she] typed.' " 6 Id. at 93. The court concluded that "[t]he law does not impose upon a Social Security claimant the requirement of becoming an entrepreneur,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “the average employer would not hire or keep the claimant employee because of absenteeism that would result from her physical ailments,”
    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.