Murray v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
722 F.2d 499 · 1983
Citation profile
103 federal appellate · 15 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 225 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Magallanes v. Bowen (1989), 15229b v. Dar Lester
103 federal appellate · 15 district · 1 state decisions
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 William Marbury v. James Madison · Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · Heckler v. Campbell · Allen v. Califano · Heckler v. Lopez a-145
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 225 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the ALJ wishes to disregard the opinion of the treating physician, he or she must make findings setting forth specific, legitimate reasons for doing so that are based on substantial evidence in the record.”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Conyers v. R Bowen · Joy v. J““Our reliance on the opinion of the treating physician is based not only on the fact that he is employed to cure but also on his greater opportunity to observe and know the patient as an individual.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he failure of ALJs to make [specific] findings in disability cases is among the principal causes of delay and uncertainty in this area of the law.”
4 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.