Cassiday v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
663 F.2d 745 · 1981
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Gordon v. Schweiker (1984), Leon v. Secretary of Health and Human Services (1984)
31 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 Landess v. Weinberger · Miranda v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Allen v. Weinberger · Young 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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'claimant's condition is not as serious as was at first supposed.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Soper v. Heckler · Jones v. Heckler“Given that the evidence continued to show the existence of the same condition, and given that there was no question of improvement but only disagreement about how totally disabling the condition had ever been, we think that Mrs. Cassi-day made out a prima facie ease and the burden has shifted to the Secretary to justify the termination of the benefits. Id. at 749 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“without personal examination of the claimant, deserve little weight in the overall evaluation of liability. The [medical] advisors’ assessment of what other doctors find is hardly a basis for competent evaluation....”
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.