Walker v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
642 F.2d 712 · 1981
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Cook v. Heckler (1986), Ware v. Schweiker (1981)
8 federal appellate · 7 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 Gold v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Cutler v. Weinberger · Blalock v. Richardson · James Hess, Jr. v. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, United States of America · Sims 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“duty 'scrupulously and conscientiously [to] probe into, inquire of, and explore for all the relevant facts' in [a] case involving an unrepresented, poorly-educated pro se claimant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“where the administrative law judge fails diligently to explore all relevant facts,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Porzecanski v. Azar
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.