Estran v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
745 F.2d 340 · 1984
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2012 · most notably Bowen v. Yuckert (1987), Salmi v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1985)
22 federal appellate · 2 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 Brady v. Heckler · Chico v. Schweiker · United States v. Cartwright · D U.S. v. Alsup
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[A]n impairment can be considered as not severe only if it is a slight abnormality which has such 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.'”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... a slight neurosis, slight impairment of sight or hearing, or other slight abnormality or combination of abnormalities.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stone v. Heckler · Davis v. Heckler“[a]n impairment is not severe if it does not significantly limit your physical or mental abilities to do basic work activities.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Heckler · Jason 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.