Edwards v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
736 F.2d 625 · 1984
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2015
11 federal appellate ·
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. § 1383 (§ 1631 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Brady v. Heckler · Strickland v. Harris · Epps v. Harris · Anderson 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it [must be] a 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, or work experience.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parker v. Bowen“[an] IQ of 60 to 69 inclusive ... and a physical or other mental impairment imposing additional and significant work-related limitation of function.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Adams v. Heckler“[w]hether these impairments (referred to in Appendix 1, Sec. 12.05(C) are in and of themselves disabling is not the question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Edwards v. Heckler
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.