Young v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
803 F.2d 963 · 1986
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Magallanes v. Bowen (1989), Fair v. Bowen (1989)
35 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Sample v. Schweiker · Miller v. Heckler · Brown 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'brief and conclusory in form with little in the way of clinical findings to support its conclusion.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“questions of credibility and resolution of conflicts in the testimony are functions solely of the Secretary.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“pattern of heavy drinking did not disable him from performing his prior work”
3 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.