Gordon v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
725 F.2d 231 · 1984
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Albert Shaw v. Shirley S. Chater, as Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (2000), Craig v. Chater (1996)
47 federal appellate · 10 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 Hall v. Harris · Henry v. Gardner · Adams v. Weinberger · Martin v. Secretary of 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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“testimony of a non-examining, non-treating physician should be discounted and is not substantial evidence when totally contradicted by other evidence in the record”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'It flies in the face of the patent purposes of the Social Security Act to deny benefits to someone because he is too poor to obtain medical treatment that may help him.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“has analyzed all evidence and has sufficiently explained the weight he has given to obviously probative exhibits....”
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.