Rocco v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
826 F.2d 1348 · 1987
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Plummer v. Apfel (1999), Morales v. Apfel (2000)
6 federal appellate · 6 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
Relies on Smith v. Califano · Dobrowolsky v. Califano · Podedworny v. Harris · Gober v. Matthews · Kangas v. Bowen
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reflects expert judgment based upon continuing observation of the patient's condition over a prolonged period of time.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Allen v. Bowen · Morales 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.