Johnson v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
769 F.2d 1202 · 1985
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably Bowen v. Yuckert (1987), Salmi v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1985)
37 federal appellate · 10 district · 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1381 (§ 1601 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1382C (§ 1614 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 401 (§ 201 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 404 (§ 204 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Weinberger v. Salfi · United States v. American Trucking Associations · Regents of the University of California v. Bakke · Heckler v. Ringer
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n individual . . . shall be determined to be under a disability only if his physical or mental impairment or impairments are of such severity that he is not only unable to do his previous work but cannot, considering his age, education, and work experience, engage in any other kind of substantial gainful work which exists in the national economy.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We will consider the combined effects of unrelated impairments only if all are severe and expected to last 12 months.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to reflect the real impact of impairments on the ability to work.”
3 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.