Pitchard v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
692 F.2d 198 · 1982
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2009
5 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Pelletier v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Thomas v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Gonzalez Perez v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Claimant would have us read this regulation as requiring the AU to conduct his own independent investigation and dredge up relevant information concerning the claimant’s capacity to perform [his past relevant] work. We find nothing in the regulations, however, to suggest that the Secretary meant to shift the burden of production in this regard from the shoulders of the claimant to those of the AU. At least in usual circumstances, the burden of presenting the relevant evidence is on the claimant.”
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.