Nelson v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
712 F.2d 346 · 1983
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Parsons v. Heckler (1984), Bates v. Sullivan (1990)
8 federal appellate · 8 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 McCoy v. Schweiker · Brand v. Secretary of Department of Health Education and Welfare · Landess v. Weinberger · O'Leary v. Schweiker · Northcutt v. Califano
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For some unexplained reason, the Secretary insists upon ignoring this Court’s statements with respect to the proper evaluation of pain. The Secretary must give consideration to subjective complaints of pain and may not disregard them solely because they are not fully corroborated by the objective medical evidence.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Secretary must give consideration to subjective complaints of pain and may not disregard them solely because they are not fully corroborated by objective medical evidence .... In determining whether a claimant's complaints are credible, the Secretary must consider all available evidence, including the claimant's work history, corroborative testimony, the claimant's efforts to seek relief from pain and, of course, the objective medical evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clark v. Heckler
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.