Carter v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
712 F.2d 137 · 1983
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently September 2008 · most notably Gray v. Heckler (1985), Walker v. Bowen (1987)
25 federal appellate · 2 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 Richardson v. Perales · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Griffin v. United States · Ferguson v. Schweiker · Johnson v. Harris
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Some disability determinations can be made on the basis of guidelines developed by the Social Security Administration without the aid of vocational testimony.... Only if a claimant cannot perform substantially all of the activities in a given category of exertional requirements must an ALJ solicit vocational testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] refusal to reopen or a res judicata determination is not reviewable,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robertson v. Bowen
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.