Berger v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
771 F.2d 1556 · 1985
Citation profile
76 federal appellate · 15 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 223 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Valmonte v. Bane (1994), Ny v. Power Authority State Ny (1992)
76 federal appellate · 15 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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. § 1301 (§ 1101 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1302 (§ 1102 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1382C (§ 1614 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1105 (§ 105 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1153 (§ 203 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1157 (§ 207 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Younger v. Harris · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · O'Shea v. Littleton · Blue Chip Stamps v. Manor Drug Stores
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 223 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he scope of a consent decree must be discerned within its four corners, and not by reference to what might satisfy the purposes of one of the parties to it.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[f]ew persons are in a better position to understand the meaning of a consent decree than the district judge who oversaw and approved it,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not entitled to expand or contract the agreement of the parties as set forth in the consent decree.”
5 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.