Behnen v. Califano’s Empirical Analysis
588 F.2d 252 · 1978
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 2002 · most notably McMillian v. Schweiker (1983), Stephens v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare (1979)
26 federal appellate · 2 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 Allen v. Weinberger · Klug v. Weinberger · Dressel v. Califano · Lewis v. Califano · Hassler v. Weinberger
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e think it fundamental, when the AU uses a hypothetical question in examining the vocational expert that the AU relate with precision the job capacity and opportunity to the physical and mental impairment of the particular claimant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he hearing examiner need not adopt the opinion of a physician on the ultimate issue of a claimant's ability to engage in substantial gainful employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Qualls v. Apfel“A claimant's illnesses must be considered in combination and must not be fragmentized in evaluating their effects.”
1 later decision 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.