Sizemore v. Secretary of Health & Human Services’s Empirical Analysis
865 F.2d 709 · 1988
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Foster v. Halter (2001), Blacha v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1990)
44 federal appellate · 1 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)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Gregory Lumber Co. v. United States · Federal Energy Regulatory Commission v. Martin Exploration Management Co. · Duncan 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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a reasonable probability that the Secretary would have reached a different disposition of the disability claim if presented with the new evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“initiate a new claim for benefits as of the date that the condition aggravated to the point of constituting a disabling impairment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“). The sixth sentence of 42 U.S.C. § 405 (g), pertaining to evidence submitted after the administrative decision, states that the court "may at any time order additional evidence to be taken before the Commissioner of Social Security, but only upon a showing that there is new evidence which is material and that there is good cause for the failure to incorporate such evidence into the record in a prior proceeding ...”
2 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.