Doss v. Califano’s Empirical Analysis
598 F.2d 419 · 1979
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 1992
4 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
Relies on Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Usery v. Turner Elkhorn Mining Co. · Dann v. Johnston · Blalock v. Richardson · Sullivan 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While it is clear that, for instance, an August 1973 X-ray would reflect a claimant’s condition on July 1, 1973, the more distant in time an X-ray is from the cutoff date, the less probative it is of the claimant’s condition at that time. Since medical evidence indicates that pneumo-coniosis is a progressive disease . it is reasonable for the Secretary to conclude that the evidence did not relate back nearly two years. [Furthermore], the relation back concept is generally used to fill in gaps in the evidence. Here the record includes a negative X-ray reading in November 1974. Again, since pneumoconiosis is progressive, to relate the April 1975 positive reading before the November 1974 negative reading would require that the 1974 report be discredited. A claimant cannot logically have pneumoconiosis in June 1973 and not have pneumoconiosis in November 1974. (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Prater v. Harris
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.