King v. Califano’s Empirical Analysis
615 F.2d 1018 · 1980
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Cotter v. Harris (1981), Grizzle v. Pickands Mather & Co./Chisolm Mines (1993)
21 federal appellate · 3 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 Arnold v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Petry v. Califano · Hubbard 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[we] place[ ] great reliance on the conclusions of a claimant's examining physician.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Even if legitimate reasons exist for rejecting or discounting certain evidence, the [Board] cannot do so ... for the wrong reason.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“consider all the evidence and explain on the record the reasons for his findings, including the reason for rejecting relevant evidence in support of the claim.”
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.