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813 F.2d 55 · 1987

Citation profile

108
cited by 108 later decisions
3
states following
September 2015
most recently cited

24 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Greenspan v. Shalala (1994), Hammock v. Bowen (1989)

24 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions

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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 Aubeuf v. Schweiker · Brady v. Heckler · Stone v. Heckler · Procaccini v. Jones · Strickland 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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[i]f, however, the claimant cannot afford the prescribed treatment or medicine, and can find no way to obtain it, 'the condition that is disabling in fact continues to be disabling in law.'”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. James McKNIGHT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee · McKnight v. Sullivan
  2. “A finding that a claimant is disabled or is not disabled at any point in the five-step review is conclusive and terminates the analysis.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Wren v. Sullivan · Boyd v. Apfel
  3. “[m]edicine or treatment an indigent person cannot afford is no more a cure for his condition than if it had never been discovered.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Warre et IV v. Commissioner of the Social Security Administration · Gamble v. Chater

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.