Rhodes v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
660 F.2d 722 · 1981
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably Gallant v. Heckler (1984), Flaten v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1995)
23 federal appellate · 4 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 Hall v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Allen v. Weinberger · Day v. Weinberger · Waters v. Gardner
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In addition, there must be proof of the impairment's disabling severity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is entitled to more than passing consideration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pieper v. R Bowen
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.