Layton v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
726 F.2d 440 · 1984
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2007 · most notably Polaski v. Heckler (1984), 969 F. Supp. 1167 - Laird v. Stilwill (1997)
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
Relies on Landess v. Weinberger · O'Leary v. Schweiker · Northcutt v. Califano · Klug v. Weinberger · McDonald 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Each illness standing alone, measured in the abstract, may not be disabling. But disability claimants are not to be evaluated as having several hypothetical and isolated illnesses. These claimants are real people and entitled to have their disability measured in terms of total psychological well being.”
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.