Wheeler v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
784 F.2d 1073 · 1986
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Jones v. Department of Health & Human Services (1991), McSwain v. Bowen (1987)
13 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
Relies on Stein v. Reynolds Securities, Inc. · Oldham v. Schweiker · Laffoon v. Califano · Pierre v. 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The weight afforded a physician's conclusory statements depends upon the extent to which they are supported by clinical or laboratory findings and are consistent with other evidence as to claimant's impairments.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is clear the ALJ considered the combination issue.”
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.