McDonald v. Secretary of Health & Human Services’s Empirical Analysis
834 F.2d 1085 · 1987
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2017
7 federal appellate · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1382 (§ 1611 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 421 (§ 221 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Weinberger v. Salfi · Bowen v. Yuckert · American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah · Califano v. Yamasaki
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there was nothing to be gained from permitting the compilation of a detailed factual record, or from agency expertise” through exhaustion, id. at 1091 , where the plaintiffs challenged an agency policy that had been formalized in a Social Security ruling. Id. at 1087 . We were commenting on the plaintiffs’ argument that they did not need to administratively exhaust their claim that what is known as”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“extremely narrow, being limited solely to affording an opportunity for equitable redress to class members who, in possible reliance upon the ongoing class litigation, may understandably have failed to perceive the need to pursue their individual claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“go forward from the point where they had left off during pendency of the class action”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.