Schmidt v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
914 F.2d 117 · 1990
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Herron v. Shalala (1994), Hattie Dixon v. Larry G. Massanari, Acting Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (2001)
11 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. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Bauzo v. Bowen · Smith v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · Wilkins v. Sullivan · Stewart v. Heckler
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[J]udges, including administrative law judges of the Social Security Administration, must be careful not to succumb to the temptation to play doctor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The award of benefits to a person disabled because the emotional stress of working would exacerbate his heart condition would not even be novel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“put all his eggs in the basket labeled not disabled from doing previous work”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Murrell v. Shalala
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.