Fiorello v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
725 F.2d 174 · 1983
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Zabala v. Astrue (2010), Hidalgo v. Bowen (1987)
7 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. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Aubeuf v. Schweiker · Rutherford v. Schweiker · McLaughlin v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reconcile explicitly every conflicting shred of medical testimony”
3 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.