Stone v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
657 F.2d 210 · 1981
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Harris v. Heckler (1985), O'Leary v. Schweiker (1983)
28 federal appellate · 8 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 Brinker v. Weinberger · Emil C. Timmerman v. Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of H.E.W., Kenneth Marks v. Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of H.E.W. · Stephens v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Gilliam v. Califano · Russell v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The agency is certainly not entitled to presumptions that obesity is remediable or that an individual's failure to lose weight is "wilful”. The notion that all fat people are self-indulgent souls who eat more than anyone ought appears to be no more than the baseless prejudice of the intolerant svelte. Modern studies debunk this myth [citation omitted].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“many of her psychological problems would subside.” There is little relevant evidence on this point in the record. What evidence there is suggests that the relation between Stone's overweight and her depression and”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.