Gray v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
760 F.2d 369 · 1985
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 140 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 190 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably 16272a Santiago v. Secretary of Health and Human Services (1991), Joseph T. FRUSTAGLIA, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Defendant, Appellee (1987)
36 federal appellate · 140 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
Relies on Rodriguez v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Goodermote v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Elizabeth Deloatche v. Margaret M. Heckler, Secretary of Health and Human Services of the United States · Carter 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 190 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““may rely on general job categories in the Supplement to the Dictionary of Occupational Titles [.DOT] as presumptively applicable to a claimant’s prior work.... [T]he claimant could overcome the presumption that the Secretary’s generalization applies by demonstrating that her duties were not those envisioned by the framers of the categories listed in the publication.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well settled that a claimant seeking disability benefits has the initial burden of proving that her impairments prevent her from performing her former type of work.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[S]ubjective symptoms must be evaluated with due consideration for credibility, motivation and medical evidence of impairment.”
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.