Davis v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
665 F.2d 934 · 1982
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Plummer v. Apfel (1999), Gonzalez v. Sullivan (1990)
20 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 Califano v. Sanders · Grose v. Cohen · Matos v. Secretary of Health · Guadalupe Organization, Incorporated v. Tempe Elementary School District No. 3 · Hensley 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[t]he Secretary's decision not to re-open a previously adjudicated claim for social security benefits' is a purely discretionary one and is therefore not considered a 'final' decision within the meaning of Sec. 405(g).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“allow a claimant judicial review simply by filing--and being denied--a petition to reopen his claim would frustrate the congressional purpose ... to impose a 60 day limitation upon judicial review of the Secretary's final decision on the initial claim for benefits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Within four years of the date of the notice of the initial determination if we find good cause ... to reopen the case....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Evans v. Chater
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.