Connecticut Department of Income Maintenance v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
114 federal appellate · 23 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 251 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014 · most notably Bowen v. Massachusetts (1988), Pacific Gas and Electric Company v. Public Utilities Commission of California (1986)
114 federal appellate · 23 district · 28 state decisions
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1302 (§ 1102 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1396 (§ 1900 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1396A (§ 1902 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1396D (§ 1905 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Harris v. McRae · Reiter v. Sonotone Corp. · Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Weintraub · Unemployment Compensation Commission v. Aragon
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 251 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he agency's construction need not be the only reasonable one in order to gain judicial approval.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“familiar principle of statutory construction that courts should give effect, if possible, to every word that Congress has used in a statute.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“consider the Secretary's interpretation of that term.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Savage v. Toan · Vierra v. Rubin
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.