D'Amico v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
698 F.2d 903 · 1983
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Peick v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. (1983), People Organized for Welfare & Employment Rights v. Thompson (1984)
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 5 U.S.C. § 7521
Relies on Board of Ed. of Central School Dist. No. 1 v. Allen · United States v. Will · City of South Lake Tahoe v. California Tahoe Regional Planning Agency · Riegle v. Federal Open Market Committee · Blackmar v. United States
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[`] Although these administrative law judges have a big emotional stake in this case and have invested heavily of their time and money in its vigorous prosecution, they are the wrong people to be raising with us the question whether the challenged instruction is lawful.... [¶] ... Their proper course is to obey the instruction and let any claimant injured by it ask the courts to set it aside.[']”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]hat route is preferable to a suit by administrative law judges, who are the umpires between claimants to social security benefits and the Social Security Administration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nash v. Bowen
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.