Francis v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
749 F.2d 1562 · 1985
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2016 · most notably Bowen v. Yuckert (1987), Phillips v. Barnhart (2004)
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 42 U.S.C. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Heckler v. Campbell · Cowart v. Schweiker · Wiggins v. Schweiker · Walden v. Schweiker · Reeves 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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'exclusive reliance on the grids is not appropriate either when the claimant is unable to perform a full range of work at a given residual functional level or when a claimant has a non-exertional impairment that significantly limits basic work skills.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“that this impairment did not significantly limit the range of medium work available to claimant. The Eleventh Circuit reversed because”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he preferred method of demonstrating job availability when the grids are not controlling is through expert vocational testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Welch v. Bowen
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.