Johnson v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2202 · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 421 (§ 221 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Weinberger v. Salfi · Heckler v. Ringer · Polaski v. Heckler · Heckler v. Lopez a-145
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.
“of non-severe impairments. On December 17, 1984, the district court denied the Secretary's motion to alter or amend its earlier order based on the passage of the Social Security Disability Benefits Reform Act of 1984. Pub.L. 98-460. 20 On March 5, 1985, pursuant to the 1984 Act, the Secretary amended 20 C.F.R. Sec. 404.1520(c) & 416.920(a) to direct her adjudicators to consider the combined effect of all of an individual's impairments in determining the existence of a severe impairment at step two. 50 Fed.Reg. 8726, 8727 (March 5, 1985). The amended regulations applied to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Johnson v. Heckler
How this case has been treated — in progress
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