Marie BEECHER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Margaret H. HECKLER, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
26 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably 15229b v. Dar Lester, Hargis v. Sullivan (1991)
26 federal appellate ·
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. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Heckler v. Campbell · Dorsey v. Heckler · Dressel v. Califano · Montijo v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Benitez v. Califano
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be considered in combination and must not be fragmentized in evaluating their effects.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a person's ability to engage in gainful employment is dependent upon both physical and psychological capabilities.”
2 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.