Fagner v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
779 F.2d 541 · 1985
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably Ara Leisure Services v. United States (1987), Jewish Hospital, Inc. v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1994)
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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. § 1320A (§ 1127 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Perrin v. United States · Swansboro Country, Inc. v. Lumberman's Mortgage Co. · Rice v. Norman Williams Co. · Amaro v. Continental Can Co. · Nance v. Environmental Protection Agency
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The reviewing court need only decide whether there are any genuine issues of material fact remaining and whether the substantive law was correctly applied.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“defer to an agency's interpretation when there are compelling indications that the agency's interpretation is wrong”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to give right or legal title to, qualify (one) for something, furnish with proper grounds for something.”
1 later decision 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.