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938 F.2d 894 · 1991

Citation profile

29
cited by 29 later decisions
June 2010
most recently cited

6 federal appellate ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably Chamberlain v. Shalala (1995), Lorenzen v. Chater (1995)

6 federal appellate ·

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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

Relies on Brand v. Secretary of Department of Health Education and Welfare · O'Leary v. Schweiker · Adams v. Weinberger · Ekeland v. Bowen · Metcalf 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “his disability is encompassed by the Social Security Act.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[A]lcoholism alone, or in combination with other impairments, can be disabl-ing_ [I]n order to establish a disability predicated on alcoholism, the claimant must show: (1) that he has lost self-control to the point of being ‘impotent to seek and use means of rehabilitation,’ and (2) that his disability is encompassed by the Act. ‘[A] finding of an ability to control alcoholism cannot rest on claimant’s testimony alone.’”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “Alcoholism, alone or in combination with other impairments, can be a disabling condition.”
    1 later decision 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.