Lewin v. Schwieker’s Empirical Analysis
654 F.2d 631 · 1981
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 11 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Frey v. Bowen (1987), Halray Harman v. Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (2000)
68 federal appellate · 11 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 Morton v. Ruiz · Schweiker v. Hansen · Barrett v. United States · Gold v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Dobrowolsky v. Califano
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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If additional proceedings can remedy defects in the original administrative proceedings, a social security case should be remanded. Where, however, a rehearing would simply delay receipt of benefits, reversal [and an award of benefits] is appropriate.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[A]n examiner's findings should be as comprehensive and analytical as feasible ... so that a reviewing court may know the basis for the decision.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an explicit finding whether the Secretary believed or disbelieved the claimant....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rand v. Sullivan
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.