Swain v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
676 F.2d 543 · 1982
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 2006
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 424A (§ 224 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Belcher · Freeman v. Harris · Kananen v. Matthews · DEPT. OF TRANSP., DIVISION OF RISK v. Lindsey
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“seems only to have been the prevention of a double offset, so that federal and state plans would not both offset the benefits that were provided by each other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sciarotta v. Bowen“must be considered as a whole, and the exception to the offset provision must be read in light of the purpose of the [Social Security] Act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the receipt of duplicative state and federal benefits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sciarotta v. Bowen
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.