Swanson v. Secretary of Health & Human Services’s Empirical Analysis
763 F.2d 1061 · 1985
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably Magallanes v. Bowen (1989), Cotton v. Bowen (1986)
33 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 Richardson v. Perales · Murray v. Heckler · Thompson v. Schweiker · Kornock v. Harris
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the critical date is the date of onset of disability, not the date of diagnosis”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the chosen onset date is supported by substantial evidence, not whether an earlier date could have been supported.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
4 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.