Brissette v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
784 F.2d 864 · 1986
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2009
7 federal appellate · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 42 U.S.C. § 406 (§ 206 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on United States v. American College of Physicians · Cornella v. Schweiker · Guthrie v. Schweiker · Mckittrick v. Gardner · Wolverton 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“obviously accepted a case with a high risk of loss,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cotter v. Bowen
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.