Geoffroy v. Secretary of Health & Human Services’s Empirical Analysis
663 F.2d 315 · 1981
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 48 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably McCoy v. Schweiker (1982), Seavey v. Barnhart (2001)
12 federal appellate · 48 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 Parker v. Harris · Lizotte v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Taylor v. Weinberger · Hall v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Hernandez v. Weinberger
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall be determined to be under a disability only if his physical or mental impairment or impairments are of such severity that he is not only unable to do his previous work but cannot, considering his age, education, and work experience, engage in any other kind of substantial gainful work which exists in the national economy____”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“demonstrate[d] ... that the record is not entirely devoid of evidence in this respect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a fair example of the type of light work the records show Geoffrey can engage in”
1 later decision 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.