Mitchell v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
699 F.2d 185 · 1983
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Podedworny v. Harris (1984), Coffman v. Bowen (1987)
48 federal appellate · 3 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 Oppenheim v. Finch · Vitek v. Finch · Kemp v. Weinberger · Parks v. Harris
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“entitled to great weight for it reflects an expert judgment based on a continuing observation of the patient's condition over a prolonged period of time.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may be disregarded only if there is persuasive contradictory evidence.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“relevant to the determination of disability at the time the application was first filed and not merely cumulative,”
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.