Rodriguez v. Secretary of Health & Human Services’s Empirical Analysis
647 F.2d 218 · 1981
Citation profile
71 federal appellate · 530 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 643 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Irlanda Ortiz v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1991), Tsarelka v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1988)
71 federal appellate · 530 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 Richardson v. Perales · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Dann v. Johnston · Allen v. Weinberger
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 643 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if a reasonable mind, reviewing the evidence in the record as a whole, could accept it as adequate to support his conclusion.”
67 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In reviewing the record for substantial evidence, we are to keep in mind that “issues of credibility and the drawing of permissible inference from evidentiary facts are the prime responsibility of the Secretary.” The Secretary may (and, under his regulations, must) take medical evidence. But the resolution of conflicts in the evidence and the determination of the ultimate question of disability is for him, not for the doctors or for the courts. We must uphold the Secretary’s findings in this case if a reasonable mind, reviewing the record as a whole, could accept it as adequate to support his conclusion.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“inability 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 12 months.”
19 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.