Reichenbach v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
808 F.2d 309 · 1985
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 2019
7 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. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Oppenheim v. Finch · Elizabeth Deloatche v. Margaret M. Heckler, Secretary of Health and Human Services of the United States · Evans 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Secretary shall consider the combined effect of all of the individual’s impairments without regard to whether any such impairment, if considered separately, would be of such severity. If the Secretary does find a medically severe combination of impair-merits, the combined impact of the impairments shall be considered throughout the disability determination process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an inability to do any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than twelve months.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“combined effect of [the claimant's] impairments on his ability to work.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Apfel
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.