Wilkins v. Secretary, Department of Health & Human Services’s Empirical Analysis
953 F.2d 93 · 1991
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 16 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Perez v. Chater (1996), Ingram v. Commissioner of Social Security Administration (2007)
28 federal appellate · 16 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
Relies on Mitchell v. Schweiker · Dorsey v. Heckler · Bates v. Sullivan · Russell v. Bowen
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) There appears to be an abuse of discretion by the [ALJ]; (2) There is an error of law; (3) The action, findings, or conclusions of the [ALJ] are not supported by substantial evidence; or (4) There is a broad policy or procedural issue that may affect the general public interest.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meyer v. Astrue · Way v. Astrue“Evidence is material if there is a reasonable possibility that the new evidence would have changed the outcome.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Evidence is new ... if it is not duplicative or cumulative.”
3 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.