King v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
742 F.2d 968 · 1984
Citation profile
119 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 219 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Williams v. Bowen (1988), Duncan v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1986)
119 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
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. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Kirk v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Beavers v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Allen v. Califano · Marcus v. Califano
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 219 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The medical opinions and diagnoses of treating physicians are generally accorded substantial deference, and if the opinions are uncontradicted, complete deference.... This is true, however, only if the treating physician's opinion is based on sufficient medical data.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Indeed, it has long been the law that substantial deference--and, if the opinion is uncontradicted, complete deference--must be given to such opinions and diagnoses.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ppropriate radicular distribution of significant motor loss with muscle weakness and sensory and reflex loss.”
3 later decisions 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.