Heckler v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
630 federal appellate · 276 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,168 later decisions (55 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably McCleskey v. Zant (1991), Bowen v. Yuckert (1987)
630 federal appellate · 276 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Richardson v. Perales · Goldberg v. Kelly · Dandridge v. Williams · Goss v. Lopez
Cited together with Richardson v. Perales · Bowen v. Yuckert · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Sullivan v. Zebley
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 2,168 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In meeting [his] burden of proof on the fifth step of the sequential evaluation process described above, the Commissioner, under appropriate circumstances, may rely on the medical-vocational guidelines contained in 20 C.F.R. Part 404, Subpart P, App. 2, commonly referred to as “the Grid.” The Grid takes into account the claimant’s residual functional capacity in conjunction with the claimant’s age, education and work experience. Based on these factors, the Grid indicates whether the claimant can engage in any other substantial gainful work which exists in the national economy. Generally the result listed in the Grid is dispositive on the issue of disability.”
39 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only when they describe a claimant's abilities and limitations accurately.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Turner v. Heckler · Kane v. Heckler“'The Court has recognized that even where an agency's enabling statute expressly requires it to hold a hearing, the agency may rely on its rulemaking authority to determine issues that do not require case-by-case consideration'.... '[A] contrary holding would require the agency continually to relitigate issues that may be established fairly and efficiently in a single rulemaking proceeding.'”
13 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.