Stawls v. Califano’s Empirical Analysis
596 F.2d 1209 · 1979
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Cotter v. Harris (1981), Winschel v. Commissioner of Social Security (2011)
12 federal appellate · 8 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 Filmon v. Florida · Martin v. Secretary of Department of Health, Education & Welfare · Arnold v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Talley v. Mathews · Thorne 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Unless the Secretary has analyzed all evidence and has sufficiently explained the weight he has given to obviously probative exhibits, to say that his decision is supported by substantial evidence approaches an abdication of the court’s ‘duty to scrutinize the record as a whole to determine whether the conclusions reached are rational.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“proof that [a claimant] was disabled due to schizophrenia after [the date on which she was last insured] is probative of the fact that she may have been disabled due to schizophrenia before [that date], although it is not conclusive.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the administrator denied the applicant's claim for T & P disability benefits because it found that she was unable to prove that her T & P disability began prior to 1962 and was continuously present thereafter. The administrator ignored the medical opinion of one psychiatrist that the applicant's schizophrenia was indeed continuously disabling, rather than intermittently so, and the medical opinion of another psychiatrist that the disability began prior to 1962. The second psychiatrist, though he had treated the applicant since 1954, had lost his contemporaneous notes. He nevertheless opined in 1976 that the applicant had been disabled prior to 1962. The applicant challenged the denial of benefits in court, and this court ultimately remanded the dispute to the benefits administrator, demanding an explanation for "why the uncontradicted evidence of the psychiatrists should not suffice to afford recovery." Thus, even though the second psychiatrist's ex post and undocumented opinion might have been less weighty were there conflicting medical opinions, it remained uncontradicted and could not therefore be ignored.”
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.