Jensen v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
766 F.2d 383 · 1985
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably Peeler v. Heckler (1986), Milner v. Apfel (1998)
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
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 38 U.S.C. § 3113 · 42 U.S.C. § 402 (§ 202 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Flemming v. Nestor · Nixon v. Administrator of General Services · United States v. Brown · De Veau v. Braisted
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“actively and satisfactorily participating in a rehabilitation program which has been specifically approved for such individual by a court of law and, as determined by the [Social Security Commissioner], is expected to result in such individual being able to engage in substantial gainful activity upon release and within a reasonable time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grisso v. Apfel“Where, as here, the rational connection to nonpunitive ends remains as a rationale for enacting this provision, a court should not reject all those alternatives save the one which might require invalidation of the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“neither an ex post facto law nor a bill of attainder because the suspension of a noncontractual benefit cannot be considered a punishment.”
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.