Goerg v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
643 F.2d 582 · 1981
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably Flaten v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1995), Jones v. Sullivan (1991)
21 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
Relies on Smith v. Pollin · Hall v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Smith v. Lujan · Kemp v. Weinberger · 166 F. Supp. 390 - Wray v. Folsom
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where no party will be prejudiced by the acceptance of additional evidence and the evidence offered bears directly and substantially on the matter in dispute.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here is little question that the plaintiff would be eligible for benefits if his carcinoma had existed prior to the date on which his eligibility for disability insurance expired.”
1 later decision 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.