Walden v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
672 F.2d 835 · 1982
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 155 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Bloodsworth v. Heckler (1983), Foote v. Chater (1995)
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
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 Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Columbian Enameling & Stamping Co. · DePaepe v. Richardson · Johnson 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 155 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) objective medical facts or clinical findings; (2) diagnoses of examining physicians; (3) subjective evidence of pain and disability as testified to by the claimant and corroborated by ... his family ...; and (4) the claimant's age, education and work history.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is such relevant evidence as a reasonable person would accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
4 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.