VAUGHN v. HECKLER’s Empirical Analysis
741 F.2d 177 · 1984
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2001
8 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
Relies on Polaski v. Heckler · McCoy v. Schweiker · Warner v. Heckler · Simonson v. Schweiker · Brissette v. Heckler
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has not issued an opinion which can be adequately related to the [Social Security Act's] disability standard, the ALJ is obligated ... to address a precise inquiry to the physician so as to clarify the record.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must consider the combined impact of the impairments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Benson v. Heckler“duty to develop the record fully and fairly,”
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.