Allison v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
711 F.2d 145 · 1983
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Frey v. Bowen (1987), Townley v. Heckler (1984)
20 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
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) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Heckler v. Campbell · Cowart v. Schweiker · Wiggins v. Schweiker · Landess 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n ALJ's use of a post-hearing medical report constitutes a denial of due process because the applicant is not given an opportunity to cross-examine the physician or to rebut the report.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he decision [of the ALJ] must be based on evidence offered at the hearing or otherwise included in the record.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he general rule is that ‘the written reports of medical advisors who have not personally examined the claimant”
3 later decisions 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.