Heckler v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
122 federal appellate · 27 district · 107 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 389 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2021 · most notably Bowen v. Gilliard (1987), Lukhard v. Reed (1987)
122 federal appellate · 27 district · 107 state decisions — followed in 21 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 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · Cannon v. University of Chicago · Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission · Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association v. D Cuesta · Rosado v. Wyman
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 389 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has served primarily to prevent the States from conjuring fictional sources of income and resources by imputing financial support from persons who have no obligation to furnish it or by overvaluing assets in a manner that attributes nonexistent resources to recipients.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to prevent the States from relying on imputed or unrealizable sources of income artificially to depreciate a recipient's need.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is based on a scheme of cooperative federalism.”
6 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.