Baker v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
730 F.2d 1147 · 1984
Citation profile
69 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 182 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Mullen v. Bowen (1986), Woolf v. Shalala (1993)
69 federal appellate · 6 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 Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Consolo v. Federal Maritime Commission · Cashell v. United States · Pont Nemours and Company v. J Collins Securities and Exchange Commission
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 182 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“merely because substantial evidence would have supported an opposite decision.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) The ALJ erred in finding that Gann’s migraine headaches and fi-bromyalgia were not severe impairments. (2) The ALJ’s determination of Gann’s RFC, along with the hypothetical questions he submitted to the VE, are not supported by substantial evidence on the record as a whole. (3) The ALJ erred by discrediting Gann’s subjective allegations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he question of power to review must, as a practical matter, be addressed and decided at a preliminary stage, not after the review is completed, at a time when a negative answer to the question would render the whole review process nugatory.”
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.