Marcus v. Califano’s Empirical Analysis
615 F.2d 23 · 1979
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 30 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 341 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Parker v. Harris (1980), Carroll v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1983)
64 federal appellate · 30 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 · Gold v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Cutler v. Weinberger · Bastien 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 341 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he ALJ has the discretion to evaluate the credibility of a claimant and to arrive at an independent judgment, in light of medical findings and other evidence, regarding the true extent of the pain alleged by the claimant.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... subjective pain may serve as the basis for establishing disability, even if such pain is unaccompanied by positive clinical findings or other ‘objective’ medical evidence.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[t]he Social Security Act is a remedial statute which must be "liberally applied”
3 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.