Sample v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
694 F.2d 639 · 1982
Citation profile
87 federal appellate · 13 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 189 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Magallanes v. Bowen (1989), 16155b Dar Morgan v. Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (1999)
87 federal appellate · 13 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. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Eisenstadt v. Baker · First National City Bank v. Banco Nacional de Cuba · Hall 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 189 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“questions of credibility and resolution of conflicts in the testimony are functions solely of the Secretary.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here evidence is susceptible of more than one rational interpretation, it is the ALJ's conclusion which must be upheld.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“merely [to] translate factual scenarios into realistic job market probabilities.”
5 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.