Weakley v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
795 F.2d 64 · 1986
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2004
6 federal appellate · 4 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 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Hephner v. Mathews · Channel v. Heckler · Teter v. Heckler · Tillery v. Schweiker
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would still have a residual of disability of a permanent nature estimated to be 15% to the body as a whole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Weakley v. Bowen“[t]he problem is correctable by surgery,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Weakley 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.