Harris v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
756 F.2d 431 · 1985
Citation profile
109 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 183 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably John VARLEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES, Defendant-Appellee (1987), Calvert v. Firstar Finance, Inc. (2005)
109 federal appellate · 1 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. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Kirk v. Secretary of Health & Human Services
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 183 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“generally accorded substantial deference, and if the opinions are uncontradicted, complete deference.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he determination of disability is the prerogative of the Secretary, not the treating physician.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“if there is uncontroverted evidence in the record which clearly corroborates a claimant's assertions of pain, it would be wrong for the ALJ to reject [the claimant's assertions] simply because of the claimant's demeanor.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.