Cunningham v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
764 F.2d 911 · 1985
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 1994
9 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. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Heckler v. Campbell · Francis v. Heckler · 246 U.S. App. D.C. 263 - General Electric Uranium Management Corp. v. United States Department of Energy · Vance 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“take particular care to ensure that the vocational experts are aware in every step of their analysis that appellant's IQ indicates borderline mental skills”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“impairment imposing additional and significant work-related limitation of function”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“well below what one might expect from someone with a high-school education”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Shalala
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.