Mellon v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
739 F.2d 1382 · 1984
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2003
9 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
Relies on Adams v. Weinberger · Tome v. Schweiker · Tucker v. Schweiker · Cole v. Harris · Reinhart v. Secretary, Health & Human Services
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ALJ cannot simply ignore ... medical evidence that [claimant] suffers from pain having its origin in a psychological disorder.”
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.