Doak v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
790 F.2d 26 · 1986
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Plummer v. Apfel (1999), Burnett v. Commissioner of Social Security Administration (2000)
11 federal appellate · 9 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 Richardson v. Perales · Dobrowolsky v. Califano · Podedworny v. Harris · Rossi v. Califano · Brewster 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[l]ight work involves lifting no more than 20 pounds at a time with frequent lifting or carrying of objects weighing up to 10 pounds. Even though the weight lifted may be very little, a job is in this category when it requires a good deal of walking or standing, or when it involves sitting most of the time with some pushing and pulling of arm or leg controls. To be considered capable of performing a full or wide range of light work, you must have the ability to do substantially all of these activities ____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In this case, remand to the Secretary for a finding about work ability consistent with the records is inappropriate____ The record can support no more than a finding that claimant is able to do sedentary work and has no transferable work skills. Therefore, a holding of disability is compelled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Delyria v. Shalala“[n]o physician suggested that the activity Doak could perform was consistent with the definition of light work.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cleinow v. Berryhill
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.