Strunk v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
732 F.2d 1357 · 1984
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably Stephens v. Heckler (1985), Powers v. Apfel (2000)
18 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. § 1382 (§ 1611 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Whitney v. Schweiker · Cummins 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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is the Secretary, not the courts, who must resolve conflicts in the medical evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The plaintiff has failed to supply this court, nor have we found any case law requiring the Secretary to make a finding of mental retardation based solely upon the results of a standardized intelligence test in its determination of mental retardation”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Popp v. Heckler“[w]here diagnoses are not supported by medically acceptable clinical and laboratory diagnostic techniques, this court need not accord such diagnoses great weight.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Arbogast 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.