Ambers v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
736 F.2d 1467 · 1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Martin v. Sullivan (1990), Lowery v. Sullivan (1992)
3 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. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Wiggins v. Schweiker · Boyd v. Heckler · Anderson v. Schweiker · 556 F. Supp. 468 - Wright 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t does not appear that the ALJ considered Ambers' other psychological impairments. ... The ALJ made no findings on these, other than to restate the physicians' diagnoses of these impairments.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“upon cessation of employment, the regulations support a finding of disability if one meets the listings [in Appendix 1], even though the statute relates disability to the inability to work because of the impairment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Powell v. Heckler“consideration of the fact that [claimant] could return to her past work is not a relevant inquiry once she has met the Listing of Impairments in Appendix 1”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lowery v. Sullivan
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.