Foster v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
780 F.2d 1125 · 1986
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably 14 soc.sec.rep.ser. 301, unempl.ins.rep. Cch 16,883 Ernest S. Avery v. Secretary of Health and Human Services (1986), Luna v. Bowen (1987)
66 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. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Polaski v. Heckler · Green v. Schweiker · Hall v. Harris · Shively 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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“which could reasonably be expected to produce”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ignored only if there is persuasive contradictory evidence.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Disability Reform Act requires medical evidence of a condition that could reasonably produce pain, not objective evidence of the pain itself or its degree.”
6 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.