Tennant v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
682 F.2d 707 · 1982
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Podedworny v. Harris (1984), Gavin v. Heckler (1987)
53 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on McCoy v. Schweiker · Lewin v. Schwieker · Stephens v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Gilliam v. Califano
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“precisely set out the claimant's particular physical and mental impairments.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the claimant has the emotional capacity to engage in sustained employment,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'Where, however, a rehearing would simply delay receipt of benefits, reversal is appropriate.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Heckler · Cook 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.