Burnam v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
682 F.2d 456 · 1982
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably Mcdonald v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1986), Channel v. Heckler (1984)
30 federal appellate · 12 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 Santise v. Schweiker · Gagnon v. Secretary of Health & Human Services
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“how much [Burnam's] work capability [was] further diminished in terms of any types of jobs that would be contraindicated by [his] nonexertional limitations.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“full consideration ... [of] all of the relevant facts in the case”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the fact that work exists in the national economy for a person who only has [the claimant's] exertional impairments, or for a person who only has [the claimant's] nonexertional impairments, does not mean that work exists in the national economy for a person who suffers from both types of impairment simultaneously.”
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.