Lewis v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
720 F.2d 487 · 1983
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2002
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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. § 402 (§ 202 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Landess v. Weinberger · McGhee v. Harris · Sellars v. Secretary, Department 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has not issued an opinion which can be adequately related to the [Social Security Act's] disability standard, the ALJ is obligated ... to address a precise inquiry to the physician so as to clarify the record.”
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.