Cummins v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
670 F.2d 81 · 1982
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2020 · most notably Heckler v. Campbell (1983), McCoy v. Schweiker (1982)
60 federal appellate · 5 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 Cannon v. Harris · 501 F. Supp. 274 - Santise v. Harris
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Claimant] particularly complains of the ALJ’s refusal to defer to the judgment of [claimant’s] personal physician. It is true that this physician had examined [claimant] more extensively than anyone else; but as [claimant’s] personal physician he might have been leaning over backwards to support the application for disability benefits; therefore the fact that he had greater knowledge of [claimant’s] medical condition was not entitled to controlling weight... A trier of fact is not required to ignore incentives in resolving issues of credibility.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“involves lifting no more than 10 pounds at a time and occasionally lifting or carrying articles like docket files, ledgers, and small tools. Although a sedentary job is defined as one which involves sitting, a certain amount of walking and standing is often necessary in carrying out job duties. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required occasionally and other sedentary criteria are met.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment,”
2 later decisions 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.