Rutherford v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
685 F.2d 60 · 1982
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 164 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Mongeur v. Heckler (1983), Dumas v. Schweiker (1983)
9 federal appellate · 7 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 Underwood v. Ribicoff · Marcus v. Califano · Bastien v. Califano · DePaepe v. Richardson
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 164 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress has instructed us that the factual findings of the Secretary, if supported by substantial evidence, shall be conclusive. We would be derelict in our duties if we simply paid lip service to this rule, while shaping our holding to conform to our own interpretation of the evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress has instructed ... that the factual findings of the Secretary, 5 if supported by substantial evidence, shall be conclusive.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f there is a continuing interrelationship between the excess consumption of alcohol and the disability, such that termination of the former will end the latter, the issue for the Secretary is whether the claimant has lost the voluntary ability to control his drinking.”
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.