Millbrook v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
780 F.2d 1371 · 1985
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Cruse v. Bowen (1989), Bolton v. Bowen (1987)
10 federal appellate · 1 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 McCoy v. Schweiker · O'Leary v. Schweiker · Hancock v. Secretary of Department of Health Education and Welfare · Russell v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Smith 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he report of a consulting physician who examined the claimant once does not constitute 'substantial evidence' upon the record as a whole, especially when contradicted by the evaluation of the claimant's treating physician.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Substantial evidence is defined to include such relevant evidence as a reasonable person might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hardin v. Heckler“explicitly discredits allegations of pain for a legally sufficient reason.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Simons 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.