Hammond v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
765 F.2d 424 · 1985
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Foster v. Heckler (1986), Cole v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1987)
42 federal appellate · 8 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. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Heckler v. Campbell · Hall v. Harris · Gordon v. Schweiker · Grant v. Schweiker · Elizabeth Deloatche v. Margaret M. Heckler, Secretary of Health and Human Services of the United States
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A disability adjudicator] is required to make credibility determinations — and therefore sometimes make negative determinations — about allegations of pain or other nonexertional disabilities.... But such decisions should refer specifically to the evidence informing the [administrative law judge’s] conclusion. This duty of explanation is always an important aspect of the administrative charge, ... and it is especially crucial in evaluating pain, in part because the judgment is often a difficult one....”
8 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.