Kail v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
722 F.2d 1496 · 1984
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Desrosiers v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1988), Taylor v. Heckler (1985)
51 federal appellate · 12 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 Heckler v. Campbell · Sample v. Schweiker · Hall v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Lewin v. Schwieker
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“set aside a denial of benefits only if the Secretary's findings are based upon legal error or are not supported by substantial evidence in the record as a whole.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the rules will be applied only when they describe a claimant's abilities and limitations accurately”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Schweiker
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.