Deblois v. Secretary of Health & Human Services’s Empirical Analysis
686 F.2d 76 · 1982
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 88 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Samuel C. EVANGELISTA, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Defendant, Appellee (1987), Heggarty v. Sullivan (1991)
16 federal appellate · 88 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 Padilla-Martinez v. United States · Consolidation Coal Co. v. South-East Coal Co. · Miranda v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Robles v. Finch · Currier v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall be determined to be under a disability only if his physical or mental impairments are of such severity that he is not only unable to do his previous work but cannot, considering his age, education, and work experience, engage in any other kind of substantial gainful work which exists in the national economy, regardless of whether such work exists in the immediate area in which he lives, or whether a specific job vacancy exists for him, or whether he would be hired if he applied for work.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“an impairment that results from anatomical, physiological, or psychological abnormalities which are demonstrable by medically acceptable clinical and laboratory diagnostic techniques.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he ALJ[ ] had a duty which has not been adequately discharged to develop the record of the etiology of the illness, its course, and its severity;”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.