Thorton v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
663 F.2d 1312 · 1981
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2017
5 federal appellate ·
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 James Hess, Jr. v. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, United States of America · Chaney v. Schweiker · Ware v. Schweiker · In re Corrugated Container Antitrust Litigation
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n order to prevent a miscarriage of justice, we conclude ... that once the Social Security Administration received [claimant's] letters requesting assistance in obtaining specific medical and psychological records, the administrative process should not have proceeded to a final decision without either some assurance from [claimant] that she no longer sought to present the records, or notice from the Social Security Administration that it would not obtain the records and that [claimant] would have ample time to acquire the records herself and file them with the ALJ for consideration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“This rule, however, is not inflexible and it gives way when necessary to prevent a miscarriage of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Paul v. Shalala
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.