Allen v. Califano’s Empirical Analysis
613 F.2d 139 · 1980
Citation profile
232 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 371 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Kirk v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1981), Duncan v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1986)
232 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Beavers v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Hephner v. Mathews · Massey v. Celebrezze · Lane v. Gardner
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 371 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]ubstantiality of the evidence must be based upon the record taken as a whole.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n individual under the age of 18 shall be considered disabled for the purposes of this subchapter if that individual has a medically determinable physical or mental impairment, which results in marked and severe functional limitations, and which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'physical or mental impairment' ... results from anatomical, physiological or psychological abnormalities which are demonstrable by medically acceptable clinical and laboratory diagnostic techniques.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.