Thorne v. Califano’s Empirical Analysis
607 F.2d 218 · 1979
Citation profile
24 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2001 · most notably Cowart v. Schweiker (1981), O'Leary v. Schweiker (1983)
24 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Landess v. Weinberger · Brinker v. Weinberger · Leonard H. Garrett v. Elliot L. Richardson, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare · Lewis v. Califano
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the * * * (ALJ) has failed to fully and fairly develop the record (,) this court has required the Secretary to reopen the case 'until the evidence is sufficiently clear to make a fair determination * * *.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he difficulty is that the medical testimony is deficient as to any corroboration of plaintiff's condition in 1975, the disputed year of disability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mitchell v. Bowen“duty of developing the facts fully and fairly,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fraction v. Bowen
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.