Smith v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
760 F.2d 184 · 1985
Citation profile
26 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 2001 · most notably Cruse v. Bowen (1989), Tucker v. Heckler (1985)
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. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Polaski v. Heckler · O'Leary v. Schweiker · Baugus v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Russell v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Clark 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Substantial evidence is defined to include such relevant evidence as a reasonable person might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hardin v. Heckler“In a case where there exists conflicting allegations and claims, credibility findings in the first instance are for the ALJ.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mitchell v. Bowen“there was no error in the application of the grid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jelinek 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.