Ferguson v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
641 F.2d 243 · 1981
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Phillips v. Barnhart (2004), Foote v. Chater (1995)
51 federal appellate · 6 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
Relies on Gibbons v. United States · Taylor v. Weinberger · Johnson v. Harris · Strickland v. Harris
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than twelve months....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if it prevents a claimant from engaging in substantial gainful employment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'It is only when the claimant can clearly do unlimited types of light work, ... that it is unnecessary to call a vocational expert to establish whether the claimant can perform work which exists in the national economy.' " Allen v. Sullivan, 880 F.2d 1200 , 1202 (11th Cir.1989) (quoting Ferguson v. Schweiker, 641 F.2d 243 , 248 (5th Cir. Unit A, March 1981)). "The burden of showing by substantial evidence that a person who can no longer perform his former job can engage in other substantial gainful activity is in almost all cases satisfied only through the use of vocational expert testimony.”
2 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.