Vernon v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
811 F.2d 1274 · 1987
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably McCalden v. California Library Ass'n (1990), Allah v. Superior Court of California (1989)
60 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois · Weinberger v. Salfi · Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond · United States v. Robinson
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.
“'pointless exercise of dismissing the appeal and waiting for the district court clerk to enter a separate judgment.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“party will not ordinarily be found to have exceeded any of the time periods [of Rule 4(a) ].”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The filing of a timely notice of appeal is mandatory and jurisdictional.”
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.