Burton v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
724 F.2d 1415 · 1984
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Embrey v. Bowen (1988), Key v. Heckler (1985)
15 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1381 (§ 1601 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Ward v. Schweiker · Goerg v. Schweiker · Carter v. Schweiker · Johnson 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To meet the materiality requirement, the new evidence offered must bear directly and substantially on the matter in dispute.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“but only upon a showing that there is new evidence which is material and that there is good cause for the failure to incorporate such evidence into the record in a prior proceeding.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“often is liberally applied, where, as in the present case, there is no indication that a remand for consideration of new evidence will result in prejudice to the Secretary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Embrey v. Bowen
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.