Lewis v. Califano’s Empirical Analysis
616 F.2d 73 · 1980
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 16 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently November 2006 · most notably Cotter v. Harris (1981), 47 Cal. 3d 112 - Walker v. Superior Court (1988)
23 federal appellate · 16 district · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1381A (§ 1602 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Richardson v. Perales · Wisconsin v. Yoder · Sherbert v. Verner · School District of Abington Township Pennsylvania v. Schempp J Murray III
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“more than a mere scintilla. It means such relevant evidence as a reasoning mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
4 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.