Wheeler v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
719 F.2d 595 · 1983
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2009
5 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1351 (§ 1401 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1381 (§ 1601 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1382C (§ 1614 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 421 (§ 221 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Ellis v. Blum · Jones v. Califano · Finnegan v. Matthews
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an individual shall also be considered to be disabled for purposes of this subchapter if he is permanently and totally disabled as defined under a State plan approved under Subchapter XIV or XVI of this chapter as in effect for October 1972 and received aid under such plan (on the basis of disability) for December 1973 (and for at least one month prior to July 1973), so long as he is continuously disabled as so defined.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“initiate[ ] even informal communications with SSA ... either prior or subsequent to receipt of a termination notice,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“specifically presented the claim that his benefits should not be terminated because he was still disabled.”
2 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.