Evans v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
734 F.2d 1012 · 1984
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Bowen v. Yuckert (1987), Salmi v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1985)
28 federal appellate · 2 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 38 U.S.C. § 521 · 42 U.S.C. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Brady v. Heckler · Taylor v. Weinberger · Mitchell v. Schweiker · Martin v. Secretary of Department of Health, Education & Welfare · Breeden v. Weinberger
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“slight abnormality which has such a minimal effect on the individual that it would not be expected to interfere with the individual's ability to work, irrespective of age, education and work experience.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a claimant's treating physician is entitled to great weight and may be disregarded only if there is persuasive contradictory evidence.”
1 later decision 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.