Warner v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
722 F.2d 428 · 1983
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Polaski v. Heckler (1984), Wilcutts v. Apfel (1998)
25 federal appellate · 7 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. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on McCoy v. Schweiker · O'Leary v. Schweiker · McMillian v. Schweiker · Tucker v. Schweiker
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'duty to develop the record fully and fairly, even if ... the claimant is represented by counsel.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here the claimant has the residual functional capacity to do either the specific work previously done or the same type of work as it is generally performed in the national economy, the claimant is found not to be disabled.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“substantial evidence in the record as a whole,”
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.