Perez v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
653 F.2d 997 · 1981
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently April 2006 · most notably Kirk v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1981), McCoy v. Schweiker (1982)
23 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 Ferguson v. Schweiker · Smith v. Schweiker · Fruge v. Harris · Rodriguez v. Schweiker
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““These tables in the regulations possess a certain tidiness which might create a temptation to plug in variables as if one was programming a computer which would print out the correct results. Fortunately for our society as well as our legal system, we are not yet to the point where a human being with particular and unique problems is declared disabled or not based upon an impersonal and mechanical formula.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is well settled that ... the opinion, diagnosis and medical evidence of the treating physician, especially when the consultation has been over a considerable length of time, should be accorded considerable weight.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medical determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or which can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than twelve months....”
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.