Flynn v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
768 F.2d 1273 · 1985
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2013
6 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Brady v. Heckler · Scharlow v. Schweiker · Smith v. Heckler · Edwards 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.
“it [must be] a slight abnormality which has such a 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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parker v. Bowen“merely a slight abnormality with minimal effect on [the applicant's] general ability to work.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hillsman 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.