Zimmermann v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
774 F.2d 615 · 1985
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2010
9 federal appellate · 2 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. § 402 (§ 202 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Heckler v. Community Health Services of Crawford County, Inc. · Schweiker v. Hansen · Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Miranda · United States Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Hibi · Montana v. Kennedy
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clear error on the face of the evidence,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dugan v. Sullivan
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.