Cagle v. Califano’s Empirical Analysis
638 F.2d 219 · 1981
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2016 · most notably Sullivan v. Finkelstein (1990), Casias v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1991)
36 federal appellate · 10 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Consolo v. Federal Maritime Commission · King v. Califano · Gardner v. Bishop · Chaney 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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our review of social security administration cases is usually quite limited. 'The Secretary's decision must be sustained if supported by substantial evidence. The reviewing court does not weigh the evidence and may not substitute its discretion for that of the agency.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'the Secretary's decision might reasonably have been different had the [new] evidence been before him when his decision was rendered.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Graham v. Chater · Godsey v. Bowen“may, at any time, on good cause shown, order additional evidence to be taken by the Secretary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ward 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.