Benedict v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2010
1 federal appellate · 1 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. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Parker v. Harris · Leon v. Secretary of Health and Human Services · Cassiday v. Schweiker · Schena v. Secretary of Health & Human Services
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Someone who is truly paranoid or who is hallucinating, someone who may well believe that doctors “are out to get him” for no good reason is unlikely to accept treatment prescribed by doctors. To deny this person benefits for this reason, because he is not acting under a “reasonable fear” mocks the idea of disability based on mental impairments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pate-Fires v. Astrue
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.