McCoy v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
683 F.2d 1138 · 1982
Citation profile
197 federal appellate · 26 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 494 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably Heckler v. Campbell (1983), Gavin v. Heckler (1987)
197 federal appellate · 26 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 Batterton v. Francis · Schweiker v. Gray Panthers · Kirk v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Herweg v. Ray
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 494 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“day in and day out, in the sometimes competitive and stressful conditions in which real people work in the real world.”
61 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“At this stage, the ALJ must determine the claimant's residual functional capacity (RFC), that is, what [s]he can still do physically even with [her] impairments, and also the claimant's age, education, and relevant work experience--the latter three findings being referred to as vocational factors, as opposed to RFC, which is a medical factor.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“of such severity that [the claimant] is not only unable to do his previous work but cannot, considering his age, education, and work experience, engage in any other kind of substantial gainful work.”
9 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.