Johnson v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
767 F.2d 180 · 1985
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Hargis v. Sullivan (1991), Phillips v. Barnhart (2004)
10 federal appellate · 1 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. § 401 (§ 201 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Heckler v. Campbell · Gibbons v. United States · Ferguson v. Schweiker · Szubak v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Jones 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the new evidence relate to the time period for which benefits were denied, and that it not concern evidence of a later-acquired disability or of the subsequent deterioration of the previously non-disabling condition.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a remand to the Secretary is not justified if there is no reasonable possibility that it would have changed the outcome of the Secretary's determination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bradley v. Bowen
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.