Rivers v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
684 F.2d 1144 · 1982
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2014 · most notably Heckler v. Campbell (1983), Johnson v. Bowen (1988)
12 federal appellate · 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 Mathews v. Eldridge · Richardson v. Perales · Weinberger v. Salfi · Ohio Bell Telephone Co. v. Public Utilities Commission · United States v. Florida East Coast Railway Co.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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 twelve months....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. James v. Bowen“there is no requirement in the Act that the Secretary present direct vocational testimony to sustain his burden of persuasion that there is other substantial gainful employment in the economy which the claimant can perform.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. Schweiker“the relevant law and regulations governing a claim for disability benefits are identical to those governing a claim for supplemental income benefits, [and] we treat the two claims together.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Knipe v. Heckler
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.