Markham v. Califano’s Empirical Analysis
601 F.2d 533 · 1979
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 13 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Broadbent v. Harris (1983), Talbot v. Heckler (1987)
16 federal appellate · 13 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
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Farrell v. Massachusetts · Marvin A. Yawitz v. Caspar W. Weinberger · Rivas 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“such activities [as school attendance] may be considered by the Secretary, along with medical testimony, in determining the right of a claimant to disability payments under the [Social Security] Act.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“gainful activity means performance of substantial services with reasonable regularity, either in competitive or self-employment.”
2 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.