Green v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
803 F.2d 528 · 1986
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Magallanes v. Bowen (1989), Fair v. Bowen (1989)
49 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 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Gallant v. Heckler · Taylor v. Heckler · Miller 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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'will be disturbed only if it is not supported by substantial evidence or it is based on legal error.'”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must consider the record as a whole, weighing both the evidence that supports and detracts from the Secretary's conclusion.”
4 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.