Teter v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
775 F.2d 1104 · 1985
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 18 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Williams v. Bowen (1988), Luna v. Bowen (1987)
49 federal appellate · 18 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. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Harris v. Heckler · Broadbent v. Harris · Channel v. Heckler · Knipe 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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“significantly limit [claimant's] 'ability to perform the full range of work in a particular RFC' category [i.e., sedentary work] on a sustained basis.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the treatment at issue should be expected to restore the claimant's ability to work; (2) the treatment must have been prescribed; (3) the treatment must have been refused; (4) the refusal must have been without justifiable excuse.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may not reject [those] assertions on the basis of demeanor alone.”
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.