Renner v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
786 F.2d 1421 · 1986
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably John VARLEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES, Defendant-Appellee (1987), 16558a Hamilton v. Secretary of Health & Human Services of United States (1992)
13 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
Relies on Tom v. Heckler · Weaver v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Wallace v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Richardson v. Secretary of Health & Human Services
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]t the least, the Secretary's decision must indicate the 'approximate number and locations' of jobs for which he finds Renner has transferable skills to support a conclusion that despite her age Renner would be competitive in the job market for those positions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“very little, if any, vocational adjustment,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The language is unmistakably clear. Absent a finding that a claimant who is close to retirement age has acquired skills which are also 'highly marketable,' the regulations do not permit a finding of transferability.”
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.