Vega v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
636 F.2d 900 · 1981
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Kirk v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1981), Berry v. Schweiker (1982)
22 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Califano v. Sanders · Parker v. Harris · Marcus v. Califano · McLaughlin v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Hicks 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In assessing the credibility of [the claimant’s] testimony as to pain, the ALJ, by observing her ability to move her joints, did not interject a lay medical opinion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Aubeuf v. Schweiker
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.