Roberts v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
783 F.2d 110 · 1985
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 11 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently January 2009 · most notably Roe v. Chater (1996), Thomas v. Sullivan (1991)
23 federal appellate · 11 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
Relies on Baugus v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is sufficient if it sets forth the impairments which are accepted as true by the ALJ.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must set forth all of the claimant's disabilities when posing a hypothetical question to [an] expert,”
2 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.