Heckler v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2010
9 federal appellate · 6 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. § 602 (§ 402 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Mabry v. Johnson · Conforte v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · Turner v. Prod Department of Social Services of State of California · Edelman v. Jordan A51
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in implementing [the section], the term 'earned income' shall mean gross earned income, prior to any deductions for taxes or for any other purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Heckler v. Turner
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.