Bilby v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
762 F.2d 716 · 1985
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Sprague v. Bowen (1987), Varney v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1988)
23 federal appellate · 7 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. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Lewin v. Schwieker · Kail v. Heckler · Day v. Weinberger · Delgado v. Heckler · Montijo v. Secretary of Health & Human Services
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where additional administrative proceedings could remedy defects”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'Disability may be proved by medically-acceptable clinical diagnoses, as well as by objective laboratory findings.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sprague v. Bowen“no showing of any medically determinable restrictive psychiatric condition,”
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.