Day v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 federal appellate · 5 district ·

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.

1. “All present and future Vermont residents seeking to secure Social Security disability benefits who, following an initial determination by the defendant that no disability exists, experience an unreasonable delay in the scheduling of and/or issuance of decisions in reconsiderations and fair hearings.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Heckler v. Day · Barnett v. Bowen

2. “[o]ur case involves neither estoppel nor a deficiency on the part of the claimant .... [T]he interim payments at issue here flow from the district court’s inherent powers to fashion a remedy, see Caswell, 583 F.2d at 17 , and cases there cited, and not from an estoppel that prevents the government from raising a defense. 685 F.2d at 24 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 550 F. Supp. 1278 - Crosby v. SOCIAL SEC. ADMIN. OF UNITED STATES

3. “exclud[e] the possibility of interim payments ordered by a court exercising its remedial power”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. City of New York v. Heckler