Brissette v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
730 F.2d 548 · 1984
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently November 2006 · most notably Polaski v. Heckler (1984), Turpin v. Bowen (1987)
21 federal appellate · 3 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 O'Leary v. Schweiker · Warner v. Heckler · Weber v. Harris · Cole v. Harris
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rather, the ALJ must consider all of the evidence and must attempt either to reconcile the medical reports ... or ... direct interrogatories to each physician to obtain a more substantial opinion as to [the claimant's] capabilities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mitchell v. Bowen“[t]his court has repeatedly held that '[i]t is the [ALJ's] duty to develop the record fully and fairly even if, as in this case, the claimant is represented by counsel'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sykes 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.