Simpson v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
691 F.2d 966 · 1982
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Baker v. District of Columbia (2003), Harris v. Heckler (1985)
44 federal appellate · 9 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 Rivas v. Weinberger · Scharlow v. Schweiker · Crosby v. Schweiker · 536 F. Supp. 79 - Shaw v. Schweiker
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... In reviewing the appeal of an initial disability case, we must consider whether the Secretary’s finding of no disability is supported by substantial evidence. However, in light of principles of administrative res judicata, this is not the proper inquiry in a benefits continuation case. We must ascertain whether the Secretary’s finding of improvement to the point of no disability is supported by substantial evidence. In each case, the burden remains with the claimant to prove the existence of a disability____ If, however, the evidence in a continuation case is substantially the same as the evidence had been in the initial disability benefits request case, benefits must be continued. Otherwise, termination of benefits will often depend not on a finding of changed condition, but simply on the whim of a changed AU____”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“once evidence has been presented which supports a finding that a given condition exists it is presumed in the absence of proof to the contrary that the condition has remained unchanged.”
3 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.