Davis v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
671 F.2d 1187 · 1982
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2001
5 federal appellate · 1 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 Richardson v. Perales · Rodriguez v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Brand v. Secretary of Department of Health Education and Welfare · Oldham v. Schweiker · Janka v. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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.