Garner v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
745 F.2d 383 · 1984
Citation profile
215 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 418 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Salmi v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1985), Walters v. Commissioner of Social Security (1997)
215 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1382 (§ 1611 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1382C (§ 1614 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 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 Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Richardson v. Perales · Kirk v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Beavers v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare
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 418 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
81 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may not try the case de novo, nor resolve conflicts in evidence, nor decide questions of credibility.”
42 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'must take into account whatever in the record fairly detracts from its weight.'”
27 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.