Botefur v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 2009
1 federal appellate ·
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 Lewin v. Schwieker · Maounis v. Heckler · Perry v. Heckler · 535 F. Supp. 1319 - Belton v. Schweiker
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Individuals who are age 60 and older and are limited to light work exertion ... cannot be expected to make a vocational adjustment to substantial changes in work simply because skilled or semiskilled jobs can be identified which have some degree of skill similarity with their [past relevant work]. In order to establish transferability of skills for such individuals, the semiskilled or skilled job duties of their past work must be so closely related to other jobs which they can perform that they could be expected to perform these other identified jobs at a high degree of proficiency with a minimal amount of job orientation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The existence of unskilled jobs in completely different fields [than his past work] should be legally irrelevant to individuals of [claimant's] age and background”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Terry v. Sullivan
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.