McLain v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
715 F.2d 866 · 1983
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably Channel v. Heckler (1984), English v. Shalala (1993)
16 federal appellate · 7 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 Heckler v. Campbell · Underwood v. Ribicoff · Taylor v. Weinberger · Hall v. Harris · Oppenheim v. Finch
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has sufficient residual functional capacity to engage in an alternative job existing in the national economy.”
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.