Wilson v. Califano’s Empirical Analysis
617 F.2d 1050 · 1980
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 12 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably Kirk v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1981), Aubeuf v. Schweiker (1981)
16 federal appellate · 12 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 Taylor v. Weinberger · Hall v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Hernandez v. Weinberger · Leonard H. Garrett v. Elliot L. Richardson, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare · O'Banner v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A general statement that a claimant may engage in “sedentary” work, without testimony by a vocational expert who can identify specific jobs, absent other reliable evidence of the claimant’s ability to engage in other occupations, does not satisfy the substantial evidence test. It is incumbent on the Secretary at a minimum, to come forward with specific findings showing that the claimant has the physical and mental capacity to perform specified jobs, taking into consideration the requirements of the job as well as the claimant’s age, education, and background [citations]. Ordinarily, the better method to demonstrate this is through testimony of a vocational expert.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Secretary [had] the burden of going forward with ... evidence to establish that claimant had sufficient residual capacity to engage in a specific job”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harper 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.