Sewell v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
764 F.2d 291 · 1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2009
2 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 Brady v. Heckler · Stone v. Heckler · Jones v. Heckler · Estran v. Heckler · Davis 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he change in language was not accompanied by 'an intention to alter the levels of severity for a finding of disabled or not disabled.' " Id. Consequently, this Court has stated that the following standard is to be applied in determining whether an impairment is severe: 9 "[A]n impairment can be considered as not severe only if it is a slight abnormality which has such minimal effect on the individual that it would not be expected to interfere with the individual's ability to work, irrespective of age, education or work experience.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Garza v. Heckler · Loza v. Apfel
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.