Borders v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
777 F.2d 954 · 1985
Citation profile
28 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2015 · most notably Sullivan v. Finkelstein (1990), Bauzo v. Bowen (1986)
28 federal appellate ·
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. § 1381A (§ 1602 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Booz v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · King v. Califano · Mitchell v. Schweiker · Grant v. Schweiker · Dorsey 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at least a general showing of the nature”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“The basic question was whether the back condition was totally disabling for a period of twelve months or more, and the third operation [performed after that period] was clearly relevant to a resolution of that question.... It might also be found to lend significant objective support to the subjective claim of disabling pain.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tirado 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.