Vance v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
757 F.2d 1324 · 1985
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2016
10 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. § 402 (§ 202 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Donovan v. Local 6, Washington Teachers' Union · Allen v. Califano · Montgomery 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“) compelled the allowance of extrinsic evidence because “these regulations would be utterly meaningless if an applicant could not use extrinsic evidence to complete the story.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Sullivan
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.