Martin v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
748 F.2d 1027 · 1984
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Stone v. Heckler (1985), Loza v. Apfel (2000)
9 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 5 U.S.C. § 504 (Equal Access to Justice Act)
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Cornella v. Schweiker · Brady v. Heckler · Tome v. Schweiker · Scharlow v. Schweiker
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 43 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 [having] 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.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stone v. Heckler · Jason v. Heckler“a continuous period of not less than 12 months.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cook v. Heckler · Stone v. Heckler“an individual shall be determined to be under a disability only if his physical or mental impairment or impairments are of such severity that he is not only unable to do his previous work but cannot, considering his age, education, and work experience, engage in any other kind of substantial gainful work which exists in the national economy....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stone v. Heckler · Davis 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.