Breault v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
763 F.2d 62 · 1985
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 2018
5 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. § 404 (§ 204 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Blum v. Yaretsky · Flagg Brothers Inc v. Brooks J Lefkowitz · Califano v. Yamasaki · Rendell-Baker v. Kohn
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where, as here, the Government demands money from a bank in an amount calculated to reflect deposits made in an individual account, knowing full well as it does so that the bank inevitably will debit that account for the amount so taken,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The state compulsion test requires that a state exercise such coercive power or provide such significant encouragement, either overt or covert, that in law the choice of the private actor is deemed to be that of the state”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“gave a check to a garage, believing there was sufficient money in her account to cover the check. The check bounced”
1 later decision 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.