Smith v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis

782 F.2d 1176 · 1986

Citation profile

cited by 22 later decisions

July 2016

most recently cited

9 federal appellate · 2 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2016

9 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. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)

Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Hall v. Harris · Oppenheim v. Finch · Vitek v. Finch · Elizabeth Deloatche v. Margaret M. Heckler, Secretary of Health and Human Services of the United States

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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“Substantial evidence has been defined as being “more than a scintilla and do[ing] more than creat[ing] a suspicion of the existence of a fact to be established. It means such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 141 F. Supp. 2d 592 - Freeman v. Halter · 141 F. Supp. 2d 601 - Pittman v. Massanari
“needed both to say so and to explain why.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Horace Rivers v. Otis R. Bowen, Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, Defendant · Van Tassel v. Sullivan
“inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Carolyn Gray v. Otis R. Bowen, Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, Defendant

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.