Tome v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
724 F.2d 711 · 1984
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Polaski v. Heckler (1984), Benskin v. Bowen (1987)
32 federal appellate · 8 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. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Erickson v. United States · Brand v. Secretary of Department of Health Education and Welfare · McMillian v. Schweiker · Simonson v. Schweiker
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`a lack of sufficient financial resources to follow prescribed treatment to remedy a disabling impairment may be . . . an independent basis for finding justifiable cause for noncompliance [with prescribed treatment]'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he question is whether [the impairment] is reasonably remediable by the particular individual involved, given his or her social and psychological situation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which ... has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cook v. Heckler
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.